We have come to recognize the brain as a predictive organ, anticipating attributes of the
incoming sensory stimulation to guide perception and action in the service of adaptive …

Selective attention comprises essential infrastructural functions supporting cognition—
anticipating, prioritizing, selecting, routing, integrating, and preparing signals to guide …

A commonly expressed view is that short-term memory (STM) is nothing more than activated
long-term memory. If true, this would overturn a central tenet of cognitive psychology—the …

An important component of routine visual behavior is the ability to find one item in a visual
world filled with other, distracting items. This ability to perform visual search has been the …

Through rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP), the authors asked Ss to identify a partially
specified letter (target) and then to detect the presence or absence of a fully specified letter …

A series of experiments explored a form of object-specific priming. In all experiments a
preview field containing two or more letters is followed by a target letter that is to be named …

This long-awaited work by prominent Harvard psychologist Stephen Kosslyn integrates a
twenty-year research program on the nature of high-level vision and mental imagery. Image …

Research on attention has evolved dramatically in recent years. There are now many new
ways of studying how we are able to select some aspects for processing, whilst ignoring …

We see the world in scenes, where visual objects occur in rich surroundings, often
embedded in a typical context with other related objects. How does the human brain analyse …

Although there is strong evidence that human decision-making is frequently self-biased, it
remains unclear whether self-biases mediate attention. Here we review evidence on the …