Decision making and optimal observer models offer an important theoretical approach to the
study of covert selective attention. While their probabilistic formulation allows quantitative …

In novel contexts, learning is biased toward cues previously experienced as predictive
compared with cues previously experienced as nonpredictive. This is known as learned …

Normalization models of visual sensitivity assume that the response of a visual mechanism
is scaled divisively by the sum of the activity in the excitatory and inhibitory mechanisms in …

Understanding the properties of attentional control, along with the neural mechanisms
subserving them, has long invited intense scrutiny in research groups. However, it has not …

It is well known that attention is biased toward a stimulus matching working memory
contents. However, it has been debated at which processing stage this memory-driven …

The landmark experiments by Posner in the late 1970s have shown that reaction time (RT) is
faster when the stimulus appears in an expected location, as indicated by a cue; since then …

The attentional blink (AB) refers to a deficit in reporting the second of two targets (T 2) in a
rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) stream when this target is presented less than 500 …

Le monde visuel qui nous entoure est extrêmement complexe, constitué d'une grande
quantité d'informations, toutes emboîtées les unes aux autres, qui entrent en compétition …

A stimulus (mask) reduces the visibility of another stimulus (target) when they are presented
in close spatio-temporal vicinity of each other, a phenomenon called visual masking. Visual …

This chapter presents an overview of the challenges that arose and brief discussions of the
current models, along with a prospective for unifying the various memory tasks. The logic of …