The brain is limited in its capacity to process all sensory stimuli present in the physical world
at any point in time and relies instead on the cognitive process of attention to focus neural …

How do we localise and identify target objects among distractors in visual scenes? The role
of selective attention in visual search has been studied for decades and the outlines of a …

Training a generic objectness measure to produce a small set of candidate object windows,
has been shown to speed up the classical sliding window object detection paradigm. We …

Out of all the human senses, touch is the one that is most often unappreciated, and
undervalued. Yet, the surface of the human body, the skin, is actually one huge sheet of …

Externally directed cognition (EDC) involves attending to stimuli in the external environment,
whereas internally directed cognition (IDC) involves attending internally to thoughts …

The ability of organisms to seamlessly ignore familiar, inconsequential stimuli improves their
selective attention and response to salient features of the environment. Here, I propose that …

Spatial priority maps are real-time representations of the behavioral salience of locations in
the visual field, resulting from the combined influence of stimulus driven activity and top …

While the field of vision science has grown significantly in the past three decades, there
have been few comprehensive books that showed readers how to adopt a computional …

Decision making is thought to be guided by the values of alternative options and involve the
accumulation of evidence to an internal bound. However, in natural behavior, evidence …

We examined whether the preparation of saccadic eye movements, when behaviorally
dissociated from covert attention, modulates activity within visual cortex. We measured …