This review focuses on covert attention and how it alters early vision. I explain why attention
is considered a selective process, the constructs of covert attention, spatial endogenous and …

Much of the visual cortex is organized into visual field maps: nearby neurons have receptive
fields at nearby locations in the image. Mammalian species generally have multiple visual …

We suggested recently that attention can be understood as inferring the level of uncertainty
or precision during hierarchical perception. In this paper, we try to substantiate this claim …

The present study examined the thesis that positive affect may serve to broaden the scope of
attentional filters, reducing their selectivity. The effect of positive mood states was measured …

We introduce functional MRI methods for estimating the neuronal population receptive field
(pRF). These methods build on conventional visual field mapping that measures responses …

▪ Abstract The discovery and analysis of cortical visual areas is a major accomplishment of
visual neuroscience. In the past decade the use of noninvasive functional imaging …

Reflecting recent changes in the way cognition and the brain are studied, this thoroughly
updated fourth edition of this bestselling textbook provides a comprehensive and student …

Everyday scenes often contain sets of similar objects. Perceptual representations may
summarize these with statistical descriptors. After determining the psychological mean of two …

Attentional mechanisms are important for selecting relevant information and filtering out
irrelevant information from cluttered visual scenes. Selective attention has previously been …

The biased competition theory of selective attention has been an influential neural theory of
attention, motivating numerous animal and human studies of visual attention and visual …