The allocation of attention to objects raises several intriguing questions: What are objects,
how does attention access them, what anatomical regions are involved? Here, we review …

I propose that primary conscious awareness arises from synchronized activity in dendrites of
neurons in dorsal thalamic nuclei, mediated particularly by inhibitory interactions with …

Event-related potentials (ERPs) have been used for decades to study perception, cognition,
emotion, neurological and psychiatric disorders, and lifespan development. ERPs consist of …

Interest in the neuroscience of emotion has increased dramatically over the course of the
last two decades. The rapid growth and popularity, however, have come with a definitional …

The present study examined electrocortical evidence for a negativity bias, focusing on the
impact of specific picture content on a range of event-related potentials (ERPs). To this end …

The effects of mental workload on visual search and decision making were studied in real
traffic conditions with 12 participants who drove an instrumented car. Mental workload was …

''Bigger is better.''So goes the message of many theoretical perspectives on working
memory, views that emphasize working memory as a ''mental workspace''which houses the …

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 …

Carnal Knowledge is an outcome of the renewed energy and interest in moving beyond the
discursive construction of reality to understand the relationship between what is conceived …

The pupillary light response is often assumed to be a reflex that is not susceptible to
cognitive influences. In line with recent converging evidence, we show that this reflexive …