Shared trial-to-trial variability across sensory neurons is reliably reduced when perceptual performance improves, yet this variability is low dime...

Humans and non-human animals adaptively boost their encoding speed when they expect limited sensory exposure time, so that they can capture essential information before it is gone. However, it is uncl...

Author summary In our daily lives, we are often required to juggle multiple tasks at once, for example when operating an in-car device while driving. While multitasking is increasingly common, researc...

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...

Abstract. Extant work establishes a close relationship between spatial attention and working memory (WM) storage. Indeed, spatial representations of memorized items emerge spontaneously, even when…

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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...

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...

Abstract. The idea that the brain is a probabilistic (Bayesian) inference machine, continuously trying to figure out the hidden causes of its inputs, has become very influential in cognitive (neuro)sc...

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...

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Where a person will look next can be predicted based on how much it costs the brain to move the eyes in that direction.

Where a person will look next can be predicted based on how much it costs the brain to move the eyes in that direction.

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 ....