The rapidly progressing science of meditation has led to insights about the neural correlates
of focused attention meditation (FAM), open monitoring meditation (OMM), compassion …

Despite the acknowledged relationship between consciousness and attention, theories of
the two have mostly been developed separately. Moreover, these theories have …

Oculomotor behavior reveals, not only the acquisition of visual information at fixation, but
also the accumulation of information in memory across subsequent fixations. Two candidate …

Perceptual organization concerns the organization of people's perception into meaningful,
structured entities—often wholes containing parts, with specific interrelationships among the …

A number of studies in cognitive psychology and neuroscience have shown the effects of
mindfulness and meditation training in enhancing cognitive functions assessed by a broad …

Visual attention and visual working memory (VWM) are two major cognitive functions in
humans, and they have much in common. A growing body of research has investigated the …

Complex networks emerging in natural and human-made systems tend to assume small-
world structure. Is there a common mechanism underlying their self-organisation? Our …

The dorsal and ventral cortical pathways, driven predominantly by magnocellular (M) and
parvocellular (P) inputs, respectively, assume leading roles in models of visual information …

The attentional blink (AB) paradigm has been used to address an enduring debate about the
nature of conscious perception: Does the temporary impairment in conscious perception of …

A plethora of research demonstrates that the processing of emotional faces is prioritised
over non-emotive stimuli when cognitive resources are limited (this is known as 'emotional …