Here, we update our 1990 Annual Review of Neuroscience article,“The Attention System of
the Human Brain.” The framework presented in the original article has helped to integrate …

Visual attention functions as a filter to select environmental information for learning and
memory, making it the first step in the eventual cascade of thought and action systems. Here …

Many but not all cognitive abilities decline during ageing. Some even improve due to lifelong
experience. The critical capacities of attention and executive functions have been widely …

Emotional arousal enhances perception and memory of high-priority information but impairs
processing of other information. Here, we propose that, under arousal, local glutamate levels …

Inter-individual variability in perception, thought and action is frequently treated as a source
of'noise'in scientific investigations of the neural mechanisms that underlie these processes …

Bilinguals have been shown to outperform monolinguals in a variety of tasks that do not tap
into linguistic processes. The origin of this bilingual advantage has been questioned in …

Rationale and objective Empirical studies indicate that nicotine enhances some aspects of
attention and cognition, suggesting a role in the maintenance of tobacco dependence. The …

The sociocommunicative impairments that define autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are not
present at birth but emerge gradually over the first two years of life. In typical development …

It is nearly 35 years since I gave the 7th Sir Frederick Bartlett lecture at Oxford University.
This was published as a paper entitled “Orienting of attention in the quarterly journal”. The …

Self-regulation has been a central concept in developmental psychology and in the study of
psychopathologies. Fonagy and Target (2002, p. 307) see self-regulation as “the key …