We know what attention is!

W Wu - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2024 - cell.com
Attention is one of the most thoroughly investigated psychological phenomena, yet
skepticism about attention is widespread: we do not know what it is, it is too many things …

Can a Neandertal meditate? An evolutionary view of attention as a core component of general intelligence

E Bruner, R Colom - Intelligence, 2022 - Elsevier
Attention might be considered a key component of intelligence, and its cognitive and
neurobiological mechanisms probably underwent profound changes in the course of human …

[HTML][HTML] Intracortical recordings reveal vision-to-action cortical gradients driving human exogenous attention

T Seidel Malkinson, DJ Bayle, BC Kaufmann… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Exogenous attention, the process that makes external salient stimuli pop-out of a visual
scene, is essential for survival. How attention-capturing events modulate human brain …

Self-attention in vision transformers performs perceptual grouping, not attention

P Mehrani, JK Tsotsos - arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.01542, 2023 - arxiv.org
Recently, a considerable number of studies in computer vision involves deep neural
architectures called vision transformers. Visual processing in these models incorporates …

[HTML][HTML] The ecological view of selective attention

T Lev-Ari, H Beeri, Y Gutfreund - Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Accumulating evidence is supporting the hypothesis that our selective attention is a
manifestation of mechanisms that evolved early in evolution and are shared by many …

[HTML][HTML] Cognitive Archeology and the Attentional System: An Evolutionary Mismatch for the Genus Homo

E Bruner - Journal of Intelligence, 2023 - mdpi.com
Brain evolution is a key topic in evolutionary anthropology. Unfortunately, in this sense the
fossil record can usually support limited anatomical and behavioral inferences. Nonetheless …

Possible Effects of Pair Bonds on General Cognition: Evidence from Shared Roles of Dopamine

LE Savidge, KL Bales - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Pair bonding builds on preexisting dopamine connectivity to help form and maintain the
bond. The involvement of dopaminergic pathways in pair bonding has stimulated research …

Attention to stimuli of learned versus innate biological value relies on separate neural systems

PM Kaskan, MA Nicholas, AM Dean… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
The neural bases of attention, a set of neural processes that promote behavioral selection, is
a subject of intense investigation. In humans, rewarded cues influence attention, even when …

[HTML][HTML] When We Study the Ability to Attend, What Exactly Are We Trying to Understand?

JK Tsotsos - Journal of Imaging, 2022 - mdpi.com
When we study the human ability to attend, what exactly do we seek to understand? It is not
clear what the answer might be to this question. There is still so much to know, while …

Attention Please! Unravelling the link between brain network connectivity and cognitive attention following acquired brain injury: A systematic review of structural and …

A Stein, JR Thorstensen, JM Ho, DP Ashley… - Brain …, 2024 - liebertpub.com
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) and stroke are the most common causes of acquired brain injury
(ABI), annually affecting 69 million and 15 million people, respectively. Following ABI, the …