Highlights•In theory, priority maps may be used to guide saccades and covert
attention.•Brain areas LIP, FEF and SC have each been described as a priority map.•We …

Decades of cognitive neuroscience research has shown that where we look is intimately
connected to what we remember. In this article, we review findings from human and …

Can we trust our senses to tell us the truth? Challenging leading scientific theories that claim
that our senses report back objective reality, cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman argues that …

Traversing sensory environments requires keeping relevant information in mind while
simultaneously processing new inputs. Visual information is kept in working memory via …

Although the contents of working memory can be decoded from visual cortex activity, these
representations may play a limited role if they are not robust to distraction. We used model …

Neuroscience methods range astronomically in scale. In some experiments, we record
subthreshold membrane potentials in individual neurons, while in others we measure …

To find important objects, we must focus on our goals, ignore distractions, and take our
changing environment into account. This is formalized in models of visual search whereby …

Priority map theory is a leading framework for understanding how various aspects of
stimulus displays and task demands guide visual attention. Per this theory, the visual system …

A prominent theoretical framework spanning philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience
holds that selective attention penetrates early stages of perceptual processing to alter the …

The present review examined the consequences of focal brain injury on spatial attention
studied with cueing paradigms, with a particular focus on the disengagement deficit, which …