The neural factors that account for the visual processing speed reduction in aging are
incompletely understood. Based on previous reports of age-related decreases in the intrinsic …

Visual information processing requires an efficient visual attention system. The neural
theory of visual attention (TVA) proposes that visual processing speed depends on the …

Attentional deficits are considered key cognitive symptoms in major depressive disorder (MDD)
arising from abnormal activation patterns within dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) …

Older adults show higher dual task performance decrements than younger adults. While this
is assumed to be related to attentional capacity reductions, the precise affected functions …

Warning signals temporarily increase the rate of visual information in younger participants
and thus optimize perception in critical situations. It is unclear whether such important …

Objective. We aimed to analyze whether complexity of brain electrical activity (EEG) measured
by multiscale entropy (MSE) increases with brain maturation during the first two years of …

Patients with asymptomatic, high-grade internal carotid artery stenosis often suffer from
subtle cognitive impairments with unclear underlying neuro-cognitive mechanisms. Thus, we …

Aging impacts both visual short-term memory (vSTM) capacity and thalamo-cortical connectivity.
According to the Neural Theory of Visual Attention, vSTM depends on the structural …

The studies presented in the current PhD thesis aimed at investigating the neural correlates
of distinct aspects of visual attention, ie, spatial bias, efficiency of top-down control and …

Selective attention controls the distribution of our visual system's limited processing
resources to stimuli in the visual field. Two independent parameters of visual selection can be …