We have come to recognize the brain as a predictive organ, anticipating attributes of the
incoming sensory stimulation to guide perception and action in the service of adaptive …

Visual attention unfolds across space and time to prioritize a subset of incoming visual
information. Distinct in key ways from spatial attention, temporal attention is a growing …

High-acuity foveal processing is vital for human vision. Nonetheless, little is known about
how the preparation of large-scale rapid eye movements (saccades) affects visual sensitivity …

Foreknowledge of target stimulus features improves visual search performance as a result of
'feature-based attention'(FBA). Recent studies have reported that 'feature-based …

What are the dynamics of global feature-based and spatial attention, when deployed
together? In an attentional shifting experiment, flanked by three control experiments, we …

Covert spatial attention (without concurrent eye movements) improves performance in many
visual tasks (eg, orientation discrimination and visual search). However, both covert …

Both exogenous and endogenous covert spatial attention enhance contrast sensitivity, a
fundamental measure of visual function that depends substantially on the spatial frequency …

A person's cognitive state determines how their brain responds to visual stimuli. The most
common such effect is a response enhancement when stimuli are task relevant and …

Psychophysical studies typically test attentional mechanisms in isolation, but in everyday life
they interact to optimize human behavior. We investigated whether spatial and temporal …

Human perceptual learning, experience-induced gains in sensory discrimination, typically
yields long-term performance improvements. Recent research revealed long-lasting transfer …