This tutorial provides a selective review of research on object-based deployment of
attention. It focuses primarily on behavioral studies with human observers. The tutorial is …

Positive mood contributes to mental and physical wellbeing. The broaden-and-build theory
(Fredrickson, 2001) proposed that the beneficial effects of positive mood on life quality result …

A rigorous analysis of current empirical and theoretical work supporting the argument that
consciousness and attention are largely dissociated. In this book, Carlos Montemayor and …

Viewing objects with the intention to act upon them may activate task-irrelevant motor
responses. Many manufactured objects are associated with two action classes: grasping in …

We identified neural correlates of declined and preserved basic visual attention functions in
aging individuals based on Bundesen “Theory of Visual Attention”. In an interindividual …

Several theoretical and empirical studies suggest that attention and perceptual expectations
influence perception in an interactive manner, whereby attentional gain is enhanced for …

Although it is clear that sensory responses in the cortex can be strongly modulated by stimuli
outside of classical receptive fields as well as by extraretinal signals such as attention and …

We used a data-driven approach to study the electrophysiological correlates of the working
memory subprocesses revealed by the reference-back paradigm. In the absence of prior …

Classic studies of object-based attention have utilized keypress responses as the main
dependent measure. However, people typically make saccades to fixate important objects …

A widely held though debatable claim is that the picture of an object like a frying pan
automatically elicits features of a left/right-handed grasp action even in perceptual tasks that …