There is growing consensus that reward plays an important role in the control of attention.
Until recently, reward was thought to influence attention indirectly by modulating task …

Hominin evolution has involved a continuous process of addition of new kinds of cognitive
capacity, including those relating to manufacture and use of tools and to the establishment of …

A network of brain regions including the ventral premotor cortex (vPMc) and the posterior
parietal cortex (PPc) is consistently recruited during processing of multisensory stimuli within …

Background Understanding social interactions requires the ability to accurately interpret
conspecifics' actions, sometimes only on the basis of subtle body language analysis. Here …

Our ability to remember locations in space (spatial working memory) and our ability to direct
attention to those locations (spatial attention) are two fundamental and closely related …

Contextual cues are predictive and provide behaviorally relevant information; they are not
the main objective of the current task but can make behavior more efficient. Using fMRI, we …

The right temporoparietal junction (R TPJ) is involved in stimulus-driven attentional control in
response to the appearance of an unexpected target or a distractor that shares features with …

The saccadic eye movement system provides an excellent model for investigating basic
cognitive processes and flexible control over behaviour. While the mechanism of pro …

Neuroimaging and transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) studies have implicated a dorsal
fronto-parietal network in endogenous attention control and a more ventral set of areas in …

Different mechanisms of attention controlling learning have been proposed in appetitive and
aversive conditioning. The aim of the present study was to compare attention and learning in …