Environmental stimuli and objects, including rewards, are often processed sequentially in
the brain. Recent work suggests that the phasic dopamine reward prediction-error response …

Rewards are crucial objects that induce learning, approach behavior, choices, and
emotions. Whereas emotions are difficult to investigate in animals, the learning function is …

Deciding when and whether to move is critical for survival. Loss of dopamine neurons
(DANs) of the substantia nigra pars compacta (SNc) in patients with Parkinson's disease …

Dopamine has a central role in motivation and reward. Dopaminergic neurons in the ventral
tegmental area (VTA) signal the discrepancy between expected and actual rewards (that is …

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 …

The dorsal convexity of the human frontal and parietal lobes forms a network that is crucially
involved in the selection of sensory contents by attention. This network comprehends cortex …

An analysis of response latencies shows that when an image is presented to the visual
system, neuronal activity is rapidly routed to a large number of visual areas. However, the …

In cluttered scenes, we can use feature-based attention to quickly locate a target object. To
understand how feature attention is used to find and select objects for action, we focused on …

The right temporo-parietal junction (TPJ) is widely considered as part of a network that
reorients attention to task-relevant, but currently unattended stimuli (Corbetta and Shulman …

We recorded the activity of single neurons in the posterior parietal cortex (area LIP) of two
rhesus monkeys while they discriminated the direction of motion in random-dot visual …