Flexibly selecting appropriate actions in response to complex, ever-changing environments
requires both cortical and subcortical regions, which are typically described as participating …

Visual attention, visual working memory, and gaze control are basic functions that all select
a subset of visual input to guide immediate or subsequent behavior. In this review, we focus …

Covert spatial attention is associated with spatial modulation of neural activity as well as with
directional biases in fixational eye movements known as microsaccades. We studied how …

Humans and other animals often show a strong desire to know the uncertain rewards their
future has in store, even when they cannot use this information to influence the outcome …

Social behaviours characterize cooperative, mutualistic, aggressive or parental interactions
that occur among conspecifics. Although the Ventral Tegmental Area (VTA) has been …

The brain makes decisions by accumulating evidence until there is enough to stop and
choose. Neural mechanisms of evidence accumulation are established in association …

Shortly before saccadic eye movements, visual sensitivity at the saccade target is enhanced,
at the expense of sensitivity elsewhere. Some behavioral and neural correlates of this …

Selective attention modulates neuronal activity in multiple brain regions, but the origins of
attention signals remain unclear. We show that, during a visual task requiring spatial …

Despite a constant deluge of sensory stimulation, only a fraction of it is used to guide
behavior. This selective processing is generally referred to as attention, and much research …

With every saccadic eye movement, humans bring new information into their fovea to be
processed with high visual acuity. Notably, perception is enhanced already before a relevant …