The brain is limited in its capacity to process all sensory stimuli present in the physical world
at any point in time and relies instead on the cognitive process of attention to focus neural …

Because of the precise temporal resolution of electrophysiological recordings, the event-
related potential (ERP) technique has proven particularly valuable for testing theories of …

How do we localise and identify target objects among distractors in visual scenes? The role
of selective attention in visual search has been studied for decades and the outlines of a …

As discussed in Chapter 11 of this volume, attention plays a role in the perception of simple
stimuli, serving as a gain control that enhances the speed or accuracy of feedforward visual …

The discovery of neural signals that reflect the dynamics of perceptual decision formation
has had a considerable impact. Not only do such signals enable detailed investigations of …

Although researchers have been recording the human electroencephalogram (EEG) for
almost a century, we still do not completely understand what cognitive processes are …

Avoiding distraction by conspicuous but irrelevant stimuli is critical to accomplishing daily
tasks. Regions of prefrontal cortex control attention by enhancing the representation of task …

This article reviews what is currently known about how the brain selects targets for saccadic
eye movements. Saccade target selection is needed because primates can look at just one …

In the last two decades, animal neurophysiology research has made great strides towards
explaining how the brain can enable adaptive action in the face of noisy sensory …

This review surveys how vision becomes action through the frontal lobe. Signals from
extrastriate areas create maps in frontal areas. These maps are shaped by visual features …