An analysis of response latencies shows that when an image is presented to the visual
system, neuronal activity is rapidly routed to a large number of visual areas. However, the …

In addition to their well-known role in skeletal movements, the basal ganglia control
saccadic eye movements (saccades) by means of their connection to the superior colliculus …

Most models of visual search, whether involving overt eye movements or covert shifts of
attention, are based on the concept of a saliency map, that is, an explicit two-dimensional …

Human ability to attend to visual stimuli based on their spatial locations requires the parietal
cortex. One hypothesis maintains that parietal cortex controls the voluntary orienting of …

Selective visual attention to objects and locations depends both on deliberate behavioral
goals that regulate even early visual representations (goal-directed influences) and on …

A growing number of researchers in the sentence processing community are using eye
movements to address issues in spoken language comprehension. Experiments using this …

This paper presents the case for a functional account of vision. A variety of studies have
consistently revealed “change blindness” or insensitivity to changes in the visual scene …

When we observe our visual environment, we do not perceive all its components as being
equally interesting. Some objects automatically and effortlessly “pop-out” from their …

Neurons in the lateral intraparietal area (LIP) of the monkey represent salient stimuli. They
respond to recently flashed stimuli that enter their receptive fields by virtue of saccades …

Visual neglect occurs most frequently and persistently after lesions that include the right
supramarginal gyrus (SMG), a part of the inferior parietal lobule. Patients with this syndrome …