Dealing with large sets of stimuli in learning tasks (abstract only)

The specific brain areas required to execute each of three fundamental cognitive tasks - object naming, same-different discrimination, and integer computation - are determined by whole-brain functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) using a novel ...

Attention is attracted exogenously by physically salient stimuli, but this effect can be dampened by endogenous attention settings, a phenomenon called "contingent capture." Emotionally salient stimuli are also thought to exert a strong exogenous ...

Because the human visual system is continually being bombarded with inputs, it is necessary to have effective mechanisms for filtering out irrelevant information. This is partly achieved by the allocation of attention, allowing the visual system to ...