Visual working memory enables us to hold onto past sensations in anticipation that these
may become relevant for guiding future actions. Yet laboratory tasks have treated visual …

We have come to recognize the brain as a predictive organ, anticipating attributes of the
incoming sensory stimulation to guide perception and action in the service of adaptive behaviour…

Repetition suppression, the phenomenon that the second presentation of a stimulus attenuates
neural activity, is typically viewed as an automatic consequence of repeated stimulus …

Brain areas that control gaze are also recruited for covert shifts of spatial attention 1 , 2 , 3 ,
4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 – 9 . In the external space of perception, there is a natural ecological link …

Covert spatial attention is associated with spatial modulation of neural activity as well as with
directional biases in fixational eye movements known as microsaccades. We studied how …

Our perception is facilitated if we know where and when a sensory stimulus will occur. This
phenomenon is accounted for by spatial and temporal orienting of attention. Whereas spatial …

Working memory serves as the buffer between past sensations and future behavior, making
it vital to understand not only how we encode and retain sensory information in memory but …

Flexible behavior requires guidance not only by sensations that are available immediately
but also by relevant mental contents carried forward through working memory. Therefore, …

Adaptive behavior relies on the selection of relevant sensory information from both the external
environment and internal memory representations. In understanding external selection, a …

Selective attention comprises essential infrastructural functions supporting cognition—anticipating,
prioritizing, selecting, routing, integrating, and preparing signals to guide adaptive …