Most studies of exogenous visuospatial attention use placeholders indicating the regions where the stimuli appear on the screen. Preliminary results from our laboratory provided evidence that the attentional effect is more ...

Objective: Inattention is undoubtedly one of the main characteristics of Attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Nevertheless, a growing corpus of evidence shows that not all attentional processes are affected in ...

Attention is a fundamental cognitive process that attempts to select relevant stimuli from among irrelevant distractors. Attention is altered in several neuro-psychiatric conditions such as anxiety and trauma-related ...

The increase of applications that use autonomous robots has endowed them with a high number of sensors and actuators that are sometimes redundant. This new highly complex systems and the type of environment where they are ...

The present study explores the neural correlates of voluntary modulations of attention in an auditory-visual matching task. Visual stimuli (a female or a male face) were preceded in close temporal proximity by auditory ...

Attention is one of the cognitive control processes that are clearly relevant for socio-cognitive performance and young childrens school learning. Good attention functioning is one of the important predictors of cognitive ...

Attention is an important cognitive process for daily life because it allows us to be expectant to situations in the environment and to select some information from many options that are presented simultaneously. It is a ...

A cardinal symptom of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a general distractibility where children and adults shift their attentional focus to stimuli that are irrelevant to the ongoing behavior. This ...