Visual area V4 is a midtier cortical area in the ventral visual pathway. It is crucial for visual
object recognition and has been a focus of many studies on visual attention. However, there …

Top-down visual attention improves perception of selected stimuli and that improvement is
reflected in the neural activity at many stages throughout the visual system. Recent studies …

Memories are about the past, but they serve the future. Memory research often emphasizes
the former aspect: focusing on the functions that re-constitute (re-member) experience and …

Despite many studies on selective attention, fundamental questions remain about its nature
and neural mechanisms. Here I draw from the animal and machine learning fields that …

How does the brain learn those visual features that are relevant for behavior? In this article,
we focus on two factors that guide plasticity of visual representations. First, reinforcers cause …

From the conception of Baddeley's visuospatial sketchpad, visual working memory and
visual attention have been closely linked concepts. An attractive model has advocated unity …

We propose that economic choice can be understood as a gradual transformation from a
domain of options to one of the actions. We draw an analogy with the idea of untangling …

Imaging studies are consistent with the existence of brain regions specialized for color, but
electrophysiological studies have produced conflicting results. Here we address the neural …

All actions, even the simplest like moving an arm to grasp a pen, are associated with energy
costs. Thus all mobile organisms possess the ability to evaluate resources and select those …

How is the processing of task information organized in the brain? Many views of brain
function emphasize modularity, with different regions specialized for processing different …