Theories of attention posit that attentional guidance operates on information held in a target
template within memory. The template is often thought to contain veridical target features …

Our ability to focus on goal‐relevant aspects of the environment is critically dependent on
our ability to ignore or inhibit distracting information. One perspective is that distractor …

What is attention? How does attention shape consciousness? In an approach that engages
with foundational topics in the philosophy of mind, the theory of action, psychology, and the …

Attention is a hypothetical mechanism in the service of perception that facilitates the
processing of relevant information and inhibits the processing of irrelevant information …

Reading acquisition is extremely difficult for about 5% of children because they are affected
by a heritable neurobiological disorder called developmental dyslexia (DD). Intervention …

It is well known that attention can facilitate performance by top-down biasing processing of
task-relevant information in advance. Recent findings from behavioral studies suggest that …

The way the cognitive system scans the visual environment for relevant information–visual
search in short–has been a long-standing central topic in vision science. From its inception …

Prior research provides robust support for the existence of a number of associations
between colors and flavors. In the present study, we examined whether congruent (vs …

There has been a longstanding debate as to whether salient stimuli have the power to
involuntarily capture attention. As a potential resolution to this debate, the signal …

Representations held in working memory are crucial in guiding human attention in a goal-
directed fashion. Currently, it is debated whether only a single representation or several of …