For more than one century, brain processing was mainly thought in a localizationist
framework, in which one given function was underpinned by a discrete, isolated cortical …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

The cingulum is a core component of the limbic lobe and part of the circuit that was
described by Papez where environmental experiences become endowed with emotional …

Over forty years have passed since the first evidence showing the unbalanced attentional
allocation of humans across the two visual fields, and since then, a wealth of behavioral …

Background While motor deficits are the hallmark of hemiparetic cerebral palsy, children
may also experience impairments in visuospatial attention that interfere with participation in …

Lesion-symptom studies of spatial neglect and the attention deficits associated with this
disorder draw a complex picture of the brain areas involved in spatial awareness. Several …

The discovery of the default mode network (DMN), a large-scale brain network that is
suppressed during attention-demanding tasks, had major impact in neuroscience. This …

Measuring task-evoked pupillary (TEP) responses as an index of phasic activity in the locus
coeruleus (LC), we examined two competing hypotheses regarding the alerting and …

Visual extinction has been characterized by the failure to respond to a visual stimulus in the
contralesional hemifield when presented simultaneously with an ipsilesional stimulus …

Attention as a key cognitive function is impaired in schizophrenia, interfering with the normal
daily life of the patients. Previous studies on the microstructural correlates of attention in …