Our ability to focus attention on task-relevant information and ignore distractions is reflected
by differential enhancement and suppression of neural activity in sensory cortex (ie, top …

Cueing relevant spatial locations in advance of a visual target results in modulated
processing of that target as a consequence of anticipatory attentional deployment, the neural …

Attention—the ability to attend to some things while ignoring others—can be best described
as an emergent property of many neural mechanisms, facilitatory and inhibitory, working …

Selective attention confers a behavioral benefit on both perceptual and working memory
(WM) performance, often attributed to top–down modulation of sensory neural processing …

Individuals with profound deafness rely critically on vision to interact with their environment.
Improvement of visual performance as a consequence of auditory deprivation is assumed to …

Our ability to stay focused is limited: prolonged performance of a task typically results in
mental fatigue and decrements in performance over time. This so-called vigilance …

When, during language processing, a reader or listener is confronted with a structurally
deviant phrase, this typically elicits a late positive ERP deflection (P600). The P600 is often …

Studies of endogenous (cue-directed) attention have traditionally assumed that such shifts
must be volitional. However, recent behavioural experiments have shown that participants …

An individual's performance on cognitive and perceptual tasks varies considerably across
time and circumstances. We investigated neural mechanisms underlying such performance …

People typically respond faster to a stimulus when it is accompanied by a task-irrelevant
accessory stimulus presented in another perceptual modality. However, the mechanisms …