Consciousness never fades during waking. However, when awakened from sleep, we
sometimes recall dreams and sometimes recall no experiences. Traditionally, dreaming has …

Top-down controlled selective or divided attention to sounds and visual objects, as well as
bottom-up triggered attention to auditory and visual distractors, has been widely …

Every day we are faced with an overwhelming influx of visual information. Visual attention
acts as the filtering mechanism that enables us to focus our limited neural resources, by …

In this paper, we examine brain lateralization patterns for a complex visual-spatial task
commonly used to assess general spatial abilities. Although spatial abilities have classically …

Attention is a process of selection that allows us to intelligently navigate the abundance of
information in our world. Attention can be either directed voluntarily based on internal goals …

In dem vorliegenden Kapitel werden zwei zentrale Funktionen der selektiven
Aufmerksamkeit diskutiert: die perzeptive Aufmerksamkeit und die handlungssteuernde …

Previous studies suggest that religious prayer can alter the experience of pain via
expectation mechanisms. While brain processes related to other types of top-down …

Spatial attention allows us to make more accurate decisions about events in our
environment. Decision confidence is thought to be intimately linked to the decision making …

The neural network and the task-dependence of (local) activity changes involved in
bimanual coordination are well documented. However, much less is known about the …

Objective Neurological soft signs (NSS) are core features of psychiatric disorders with
significant neurodevelopmental origin. However, it is unclear whether NSS correlates are …