Working memory (WM) involves maintaining information in an on-line state. One emerging
view is that information in WM is maintained via sensory recruitment, such that information is …

Visual attention may be voluntarily directed to particular locations or features (voluntary
control), or it may be captured by salient stimuli, such as the abrupt appearance of a new …

Working memory (WM) enables the storage and manipulation of information in an active
state. WM storage has long been associated with sustained increases in activation across a …

Observers viewing a complex visual scene selectively attend to relevant locations or objects
and ignore irrelevant ones. Selective attention to an object enhances its neural …

Economists and cognitive psychologists have long known that prior rewards bias decision
making in favor of options with high expected value. Accordingly, value modulates the activity …

Conscious perception of the visual world depends on neural activity at all levels of the visual
system from the retina to regions of parietal and frontal cortex. Neurons in early visual areas …

Visual attention, the mechanism by which observers select relevant or important information
from scenes, can be deployed to locations in space or to spatially invariant object …

When faced with a crowded visual scene, observers must selectively attend to behaviorally
relevant objects to avoid sensory overload. Often this selection process is guided by prior …

When multiple objects are present in a visual scene, they compete for cortical processing in
the visual system; selective attention biases this competition so that representations of …

A network of fronto-parietal cortical areas is known to be involved in the control of visual
attention, but the representational scope and specific function of these areas remains unclear. …