Past experience and our current goals guide what information to focus on. But how and when does the brain represent the past and the present? This new study shows that the brain represents the past an...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

Putting effort into task complexity - Volume 48

Numerosity adaptation suppresses monotonic neural responses to numerosity displays in the early visual cortex, with more suppression for higher numerosity adaptors. Therefore, numerosity adaptation ef...

The neural signatures of preparing overt eye movements and directing covert spatial attention overlap as they recruit the same brain areas. Yet, these neural signatures are dissociable at the single-c...

Finding an object typically involves the use of working memory to prioritize relevant visual information at the right time. For example, successfully detecting a highway exit sign is useless when your...

Adaptive behavior necessitates the prioritization of the most relevant information in the environment (external) and in memory (internal). Internal prioritization is known to guide the selection of ex...

Previous studies have shown that the pupillary light response (PLR) can physiologically index covert attention, but only with highly simplistic stimuli. With a newly introduced technique that models ....

Dominant theories posit that attentional shifts prior to saccades enable a stable visual experience despite abrupt changes in visual input caused by saccades. However, recent work may challenge this ...

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Items held in visual working memory (VWM) influence early visual processing by enhancing memory-matching visual input. Depending on current task deman…

Helmholtz lecture Abigail Marsh (Department of Psychology, Georgetown University) Title: Altruism, care, and the extended self Abstract: Will be revealed soon Location: Ruppert building room Paars (Pu...