When subjects direct attention to a particular location in a visual scene, responses in the visual
cortex to stimuli presented at that location are enhanced, and the suppressive influences …

Selective attention mechanisms route behaviorally relevant information through large-scale
cortical networks. Although evidence suggests that populations of cortical neurons …

Attentional mechanisms are important for selecting relevant information and filtering out
irrelevant information from cluttered visual scenes. Selective attention has previously been …

The functions of prefrontal cortex (PFC) areas are constrained by their anatomical connections.
There is little quantitative information about human PFC connections, and, instead, our …

Neurophysiological studies in monkeys show that when multiple visual stimuli appear
simultaneously in the visual field, they are not processed independently, but rather interact in a …

Single-cell studies in the macaque have reported selective neural responses evoked by
visual presentations of faces and bodies. Consistent with these findings, functional magnetic …

Classic studies of spatial attention assumed that its neural and behavioral effects were
continuous over time. Recent behavioral studies have instead revealed that spatial attention …

Human neuroimaging studies suggest that areas in temporal cortex respond preferentially
to certain biologically relevant stimulus categories such as faces and bodies. Single-cell …

The cortico-ponto-cerebellar system is one of the largest projection systems in the primate
brain, but in the human brain the nature of the information processing in this system remains …

Natural visual scenes are cluttered and contain many different objects that cannot all be
processed simultaneously. Therefore, attentional mechanisms are needed to select relevant and …