The posterior cingulate cortex is a highly connected and metabolically active brain region.
Recent studies suggest it has an important cognitive role, although there is no consensus …

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 …

The concept of attention as central to human performance extends back to the start of
experimental psychology (James 1890), yet even a few years ago, it would not have been …

This is a Classic Edition of Adrian Wells and Gerald Matthews' award-winning textbook on
attention and emotion, which now includes new section introductions. The book won the …

This chapter explains the resource concept in single-task performance. The resource
concept is founded on the underlying assumption that the human operator has a limited …

Recent studies indicate that subjects may respond to visual information during either an
early parallel phase or a later focused phase and that the selection of the relevant phase is …

The early and late selection debate may be resolved if perceptual load of relevant
information determines the selective processing of irrelevant information. This hypothesis …

Global context plays an important, but poorly understood, role in visual tasks. This study
demonstrates that a robust memory for visual context exists to guide spatial attention. Global …

There is considerable evidence that visual attention is concentrated at a single locus in the
visual field, and that this locus can be moved independent of eye movements. Two studies …

Attention has been found to have a wide variety of effects on the responses of neurons in
visual cortex. We describe a model of attention that exhibits each of these different forms of …