Visual attention enables us to selectively prioritize or suppress information in the
environment. Prominent models concerned with the control of visual attention differentiate …

These findings have implications for understanding and assessing affective biases in
perception and attention in patients with psychiatric disorders, such as phobias, depression …

Motivational stimuli such as rewards elicit adaptive responses and influence various
cognitive functions. Notably, increasing evidence suggests that stimuli with particular …

Deciding in which direction to move is a ubiquitous feature of animal behavior, but the
neural substrates of locomotor choices are not well understood. The superior colliculus (SC) …

It is well known that eye movement patterns are influenced by both goal-and salience-driven
factors. Recent studies, however, have demonstrated that objects that are nonsalient and …

Making decisions about future actions is a fundamental function of the nervous system.
Classical theories hold that separate sets of brain regions are responsible for selecting and …

Orienting attention in space recruits fronto-parietal networks whose damage results in
unilateral spatial neglect. However, attention orienting may also be governed by emotional …

Cocaine addiction is a multi‐dimensional behavioral disorder characterized by a loss of
control over cocaine taking despite of detrimental consequences. Structural MRI studies …

Animals face frequent threats from predators and must generate appropriate behavioural
responses to ensure their survival. To achieve this, they process sensory cues to correctly …

The mesopontine rostromedial tegmental nucleus (RMTg) is a newly identified brain
structure that exerts previously unrecognized, profound inhibitory control on the …