In natural scenes, objects rarely occur in isolation but appear within a spatiotemporal context.
Here, we show that the perceived size of a stimulus is significantly affected by the context …

Previous studies have proposed a variety of mechanisms by which attention influences
neuronal activity. Here we investigated the mechanisms of attention in the striate cortex of …

Models of visual attention hold that top-down signals from frontal cortex influence information
processing in visual cortex. It is unknown whether situations exist in which visual cortex …

The visual system encodes the features of visual stimuli as well as their behavioral relevance.
Stimuli with a high luminance contrast evoke more activity in the visual cortex than stimuli …

Cross-modal interactions are very common in perception. An important feature of many
perceptual stimuli is their reward-predicting properties, the utilization of which is essential for …

Past reward associations may be signaled from different sensory modalities; however, it
remains unclear how different types of reward-associated stimuli modulate sensory perception. …

Background Object-based attention can group image elements of spatially extended objects
into coherent representations, but its mechanisms have remained unclear. The mechanisms …

Monetary value enhances visual perception and attention and boosts activity in the primary
visual cortex, however, it is still unclear whether monetary value can modulate the conscious …

Neurons in the frontal eye fields (FEFs) register incoming visual information and select visual
stimuli that are relevant for behavior. Here we investigated the timing of the visual response …

In natural environments objects comprise multiple features from the same or different
sensory modalities but it is not known how perception of an object is affected by the value …