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 …

Highlights•Lingering biases of previous selection episodes play a major role in attentional
selection.•Statistical learning of the environmental regularities biases attentional …

Recent studies have revealed a strong relationship between visual working memory and
selective attention, such that attention is biased by what is currently on our mind. However …

The two basic phenomena that define the problem of visual attention can be illustrated in a
simple example. Consider the arrays shown in each panel of Figure 1. In a typical …

Visual search, a vital task for humans and animals, has also become a common and
important tool for studying many topics central to active vision and cognition ranging from …

Decision theory proposes that humans and animals decide what to do in a given situation by
assessing the relative value of each possible response. This assessment can be computed …

The EZ Reader model (Reichle et al. 1998; 1999) provides a theoretical framework for
understanding how word identification, visual processing, attention, and oculomotor control …

More than one third of the human brain is devoted to the processes of seeing-vision is after
all the main way in which we gather information about the world. But human vision is a …

A model for aspects of visual attention based on the concept of selective tuning is presented.
It provides for a solution to the problems of selection in an image, information routing …

The primate visual system offers unprecedented opportunities for investigating the neural
basis of cognition. Even the simplest visual discrimination task requires processing of …