Inherent in visual scene analysis is a bottleneck associated with the need to sequentially
sample locations with foveating eye movements. The concept of a 'saliency …

Highlights•In theory, priority maps may be used to guide saccades and covert
attention.•Brain areas LIP, FEF and SC have each been described as a priority map.•We …

How is it that thoroughly physical material beings such as ourselves can think, dream, feel,
create and understand ideas, theories and concepts? How does mere matter give rise to all …

It has been suggested that the lateral intraparietal area (LIP) of macaques plays a
fundamental role in sensorimotor decision-making. We examined the neural code in LIP at …

Abstract Models of visual attention postulate the existence of a saliency map whose function
is to guide attention and gaze to the most conspicuous regions in a visual scene. Although …

The human visual system uses two parallel pathways for spatial processing and object
recognition. In contrast, computer vision systems tend to use a single feedforward pathway …

Highlights•Behavioral diversity can be leveraged to reveal neural circuit functions.•Complex
tasks allow inference of latent behavioral variables to relate to neural activity.•Movements …

Neuroscience has long focused on finding encoding models that effectively ask “what
predicts neural spiking?” and generalized linear models (GLMs) are a typical approach. It is …

Rewards associated with actions are critical for motivation and learning about the
consequences of one's actions on the world. The motor cortices are involved in planning …

We recently demonstrated that position in visual space is represented by grid cells in the
primate entorhinal cortex (EC), suggesting that visual exploration of complex scenes in …