This review focuses on covert attention and how it alters early vision. I explain why attention
is considered a selective process, the constructs of covert attention, spatial endogenous and …

As you drive into the centre of town, cars and trucks approach from several directions, and
pedestrians swarm into the intersection. The wind blows a newspaper into the gutter and a …

Motivation, affect and cognition are interrelated. However, the control of attentional
deployment and more specifically, attempting to provide a more complete account of the …

Over the past 30 years, recordings of event-related potentials (ERPs) from normal
individuals have played an increasingly important role in our understanding of the …

Does attention alter appearance? This critical issue, debated for over a century, remains
unsettled. From psychophysical evidence that covert attention affects early vision—it …

Orienting of spatial attention is a family of phylogenetically old mechanisms developed to
select information for further processing. Information can be selected via top-down or …

▪ Abstract Single-unit recording studies in the macaque have carefully documented the
modulatory effects of attention on the response properties of visual cortical neurons …

Visual perceptual learning through practice or training can significantly improve
performance on visual tasks. Originally seen as a manifestation of plasticity in the primary …

It has become accepted in the neuroscience community that perception and performance
are quintessentially multisensory by nature. Using the full palette of modern brain imaging …

When attention is directed to a location in the visual field, sensitivity to stimuli at that location
is increased. At the neuronal level, this could arise either through a multiplicative increase in …