Shifting focus on a visual scene without moving our eyes - think driving, or reading a room for the reaction to your joke - is a behavior known as covert attention. We do it all the time, but little ...

The idea is that the cue orients the attention brain mechanism to the cued location, altering visual processing. "Because it's so natural to us humans, these covert attention behaviors seem ...

The brain does not need its sophisticated cortex to interpret the visual world. A new study published in PLOS Biology demonstrates that a much older structure, the superior colliculus, contains the ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have shown that the behavioral markers of covert attention — once thought to be the exclusive domain of primates — may actually be more of an emergent form of ...

Mental fatigue, defined as a psychobiological state arising from prolonged cognitive activity, has gained increasing ...

Shifting focus on a visual scene without moving our eyes — think driving, or reading a room for the reaction to your joke — is a behavior known as covert attention. We do it all the time, but little ...