The attentive brain: insights from developmental cognitive neuroscience

D Amso, G Scerif - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2015 - nature.com
Visual attention functions as a filter to select environmental information for learning and
memory, making it the first step in the eventual cascade of thought and action systems. Here …

[HTML][HTML] Cortical coupling reflects Bayesian belief updating in the deployment of spatial attention

S Vossel, C Mathys, KE Stephan… - Journal of …, 2015 - Soc Neuroscience
The deployment of visuospatial attention and the programming of saccades are governed by
the inferred likelihood of events. In the present study, we combined computational modeling …

Learning differences and eye fixation patterns in virtual and physical science laboratories

KP Chien, CY Tsai, HL Chen, WH Chang… - Computers & Education, 2015 - Elsevier
This project analyzed high school students' performance and eye movement while learning
in a simulation-based laboratory (SBL) and a microcomputer-based laboratory (MBL) …

Strong rightward lateralization of the dorsal attentional network in left‐handers with right sighting‐eye: An evolutionary advantage

L Petit, L Zago, E Mellet, G Jobard… - Human Brain …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Hemispheric lateralization for spatial attention and its relationships with manual preference
strength and eye preference were studied in a sample of 293 healthy individuals balanced …

Social decisions affect neural activity to perceived dynamic gaze

M Latinus, SA Love, A Rossi, FJ Parada… - Social cognitive and …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Gaze direction, a cue of both social and spatial attention, is known to modulate early neural
responses to faces eg N170. However, findings in the literature have been inconsistent …

Overlapping neural circuits for visual attention and eye movements in the human cerebellum

CL Striemer, PA Chouinard, MA Goodale… - Neuropsychologia, 2015 - Elsevier
Previous research in patients with cerebellar damage suggests that the cerebellum plays a
role in covert visual attention. One limitation of some of these studies is that they examined …

Deficits in reflexive covert attention following cerebellar injury

CL Striemer, D Cantelmi, MD Cusimano… - Frontiers in human …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Traditionally the cerebellum has been known for its important role in coordinating motor
output. Over the past 15 years numerous studies have indicated that the cerebellum plays a …

Brain networks governing the golf swing in professional golfers

JH Kim, JK Han, BN Kim, DH Han - Journal of Sports Sciences, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Golf, as with most complex motor skills, requires multiple different brain functions, including
attention, motor planning, coordination, calculation of timing, and emotional control. In this …

Effector specificity in macaque frontal and parietal cortex

E Premereur, P Janssen, W Vanduffel - Journal of Neuroscience, 2015 - Soc Neuroscience
Single neurons in the frontal eye fields (FEFs) and lateral intraparietal area (LIP) of
macaques are preferentially activated by saccade-versus reach-related processes. fMRI …

The role of the right frontal eye field in overt visual attention deployment as assessed by free visual exploration

D Cazzoli, S Jung, T Nyffeler, T Nef, P Wurtz… - Neuropsychologia, 2015 - Elsevier
The frontal eye field (FEF) is known to be involved in saccade generation and visual
attention control. Studies applying covert attentional orienting paradigms have shown that …