Advances on several fronts have refined our understanding of the neuronal mechanisms of
attention. This review focuses on recent progress in understanding visual attention through …

Neurons in early sensory cortex show weak but systematic correlations with perceptual
decisions when trained animals perform at psychophysical threshold. These correlations are …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An erratum for this article was reported in Vol 118 (1) of
Psychological Review (see record 2011-00732-008). The presentation of the colors in …

Single sensory neurons can be surprisingly predictive of behavior in discrimination tasks.
We propose this is possible because sensory information extracted from neural populations …

Spatial attention improves perception of attended parts of a scene, a behavioral
enhancement accompanied by modulations of neuronal firing rates. These modulations vary …

A long-standing question in systems neuroscience is how the activity of single neurons gives
rise to our perceptions and actions. Critical insights into this question occurred in the last …

The contribution of sensory neurons to perceptual decisions about external stimulus events
has received much attention, but it is less clear how sensory responses are integrated over …

Attention enhances the neural representations of behaviorally relevant stimuli, typically by a
push–pull increase of the neuronal response gain to attended vs. unattended stimuli. This …

Amplitude modulation (AM) is a common feature of natural sounds, and its detection is
biologically important. Even though most sounds are not fully modulated, the majority of …

Primary visual cortex (V1) forms the initial cortical representation of objects and events in our
visual environment, and it distributes information about that representation to higher cortical …