Attention is a core property of all perceptual and cognitive operations. Given limited capacity
to process competing options, attentional mechanisms select, modulate, and sustain focus …

We describe the key features of the visual world paradigm and review the main research
areas where it has been used. In our discussion we highlight that the paradigm provides …

What determines what we see? In contrast to the traditional “modular” understanding of
perception, according to which visual processing is encapsulated from higher-level …

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 …

Overt exploration or sampling behaviors, such as whisking, sniffing, and saccadic eye
movements [1, 2], are often characterized by a rhythm. In addition, the electrophysiologically …

Most of our knowledge about the functional organization of neuronal systems is based on
the analysis of the firing patterns of individual neurons that have been recorded one by one …

Our everyday surroundings besiege us with information. The battle is for a share of our
limited attention and memory, with the brain selecting the winners and discarding the losers …

What are the units of attention? In addition to standard models holding that attention can
select spatial regions and visual features, recent work suggests that in some cases attention …

Applied Attention Theory, Second Edition provides details concerning the relevance of all
aspects of attention to the world beyond the laboratory. Topic application areas include the …

Two tasks were used to evaluate the grain of visual attention, the minimum spacing at which
attention can select individual items. First, observers performed a tracking task at many …