The rapid and efficient selection of emotionally salient or goal-relevant stimuli in the
environment is crucial for flexible and adaptive behaviors. Converging data from …

Multisensory integration has often been characterized as an automatic process. Recent
findings indicate that multisensory integration can occur across various stages of stimulus …

Control regions in the brain are thought to provide signals that configure the brain's moment-
to-moment information processing. Previously, we identified regions that carried signals …

Momentary lapses in attention frequently impair goal-directed behavior, sometimes with
serious consequences. Nevertheless, we lack an integrated view of the brain mechanisms …

It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance
are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging …

Spatial selective attention is widely considered to be right hemisphere dominant. Previous
functional magnetic resonance imaging studies, however, have reported bilateral blood …

Conscious perception of the visual world depends on neural activity at all levels of the visual
system from the retina to regions of parietal and frontal cortex. Neurons in early visual areas …

We used magnetoencephalography to characterize the spatiotemporal dynamics of cortical
activity during top–down control of working memory (WM). fMRI studies have previously …

Attentional control provides top-down influences that allow task-relevant stimuli and
responses to be processed preferentially. The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) plays an …

In everyday life, we often focus greater attention on behaviorally relevant stimuli to limit the
processing of distracting events. For example, when distracting voices intrude upon a …