Functional specialization in the attention network

IC Fiebelkorn, S Kastner - Annual review of psychology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Spatial attention is comprised of neural mechanisms that boost sensory processing at a
behaviorally relevant location while filtering out competing information. The present review …

The intricate interplay of spatial attention and expectation: a multisensory perspective

A Zuanazzi, U Noppeney - Multisensory Research, 2020 - brill.com
Attention (ie, task relevance) and expectation (ie, signal probability) are two critical top-down
mechanisms guiding perceptual inference. Attention prioritizes processing of information …

A temporal sampling basis for visual processing in developmental dyslexia

K Archer, K Pammer, TR Vidyasagar - Frontiers in human …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Knowledge of oscillatory entrainment and its fundamental role in cognitive and behavioral
processing has increasingly been applied to research in the field of reading and …

[HTML][HTML] Covert attention beyond the range of eye-movements: Evidence for a dissociation between exogenous and endogenous orienting

S Casteau, DT Smith - Cortex, 2020 - Elsevier
The relationship between covert shift of attention and the oculomotor system has been the
subject of numerous studies. A widely held view, known as Premotor Theory, is that covert …

The eyes do not have it after all? Attention is not automatically biased towards faces and eyes

EJ Pereira, E Birmingham, J Ristic - Psychological research, 2020 - Springer
It is commonly accepted that attention is spontaneously biased towards faces and eyes.
However, the role of stimulus features and task settings in this finding has not yet been …

Under the mind's hood: What we have learned by watching the brain at work

AC Nobre, F van Ede - Journal of Neuroscience, 2020 - Soc Neuroscience
Imagine you were asked to investigate the workings of an engine, but to do so without ever
opening the hood. Now imagine the engine fueled the human mind. This is the challenge …

Associations between attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and ocular abnormalities in children: a population-based study

JD Ho, JJ Sheu, YW Kao, BC Shia… - Ophthalmic …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose: Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) was reported to be associated with
disturbances in the prefrontal circuitry and seems to be associated with dysfunctions of eye …

Two-day-old newborns learn to discriminate accelerated-decelerated biological kinematics from constant velocity motion

L Craighero, V Ghirardi, M Lunghi, F Panin, F Simion - Cognition, 2020 - Elsevier
Already in uterus the hand moves with the typical accelerated-decelerated kinematics of
goal-directed actions and, from the twenty-second week of pregnancy, the unborn shows the …

Two distinct systems represent contralateral and ipsilateral sensorimotor processes in the human premotor cortex: a dense TMS mapping study

C Lega, L Chelazzi, L Cattaneo - Cerebral Cortex, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Animal brains contain behaviorally committed representations of the surrounding world,
which integrate sensory and motor information. In primates, sensorimotor mechanisms …

Ipsilesional perceptual deficits in hemispatial neglect

T Ro, M Beauchamp - cortex, 2020 - Elsevier
Hemispatial neglect, usually after right hemisphere lesions, is characterized by
contralesional deficits in attention and perception. However, little is known about …