Immediately following an event at a peripheral location there is facilitation for the processing
of other stimuli near that location. This is said to reflect a reflexive shift of attention towards …

Stimuli from multiple sensory organs can be integrated into a coherent representation
through multiple phases of multisensory processing; this phenomenon is called multisensory …

This book is a succinct introduction to the orienting of attention. Richard Wright and
Lawrence Ward describe the covert orienting literature clearly and concisely, illustrating it …

Despite 2 centuries of research, the question of whether attending to a sensory modality
speeds the perception of stimuli in that modality has yet to be resolved. The authors highlight …

In this review, I highlight some of the most exciting recent developments in the area of
crossmodal spatial attention, focusing on studies that question the automaticity of …

When responding to a suddenly appearing stimulus, we are slower and/or less accurate
when the stimulus occurs at the same location of a previous event than when it appears in a …

The human attentional system can be subdivided into three functional networks of alerting,
orienting, and executive control. Although these networks have been extensively studied in …

One component of successful social interactions is joint attention. It is now well established
that when a gaze shift is observed, the observer's attention rapidly and automatically orients …

Selective attention allows organisms to extract behaviorally relevant information while
ignoring distracting stimuli that compete for the limited resources of their central nervous …

Although a great deal is now known about the peripheral sensory mechanisms involved in
tactile information processing [Ann Rev Psychol 1990; 50: 305], it is only more recently that …