Highlights•Researchers disagree about whether visual phenomenology is rich or
sparse.•Studies show that minimally attended phenomenology is subjectively overestimated …

“A first-class intellectual adventure.”—Brian Greene, author of Until the End of Time
Illuminating his groundbreaking theory of consciousness, known as the attention schema …

Oscillatory brain activity has functional relevance for perceptual and cognitive processes, as
proven by numerous electrophysiology studies accumulating over the years. However, only …

How does visual attention affect spatial resolution? In texture-segmentation tasks,
exogenous (involuntary) attention automatically increases resolution at the attended …

People's eyes are directed at objects of interest with the aim of acquiring visual information.
However, processing this information is constrained in capacity, requiring task-driven and …

Saccadic eye movements cause a rapid sweep of the visual image across the retina and
bring the saccade's target into high-acuity foveal vision. Even before saccade onset, visual …

Transient oscillations in network activity upon sensory stimulation have been reported in
different sensory areas of the brain. These evoked oscillations are the generic response of …

Spatial attention changes the sampling of visual space. Behavioral studies suggest that
feature-based attention modulates this resampling to optimize the attended feature's …

Visual attention spreads over a range around the focus as the spotlight metaphor describes.
Spatial spread of attentional enhancement and local selection/inhibition are crucial factors …

Visual attention is widely considered a vital factor in the perception and analysis of a visual
scene. Several studies explored the effects and mechanisms of top-down attention, but the …