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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The aim of this study was to investigate whether emotion-attention interaction depends on attentional engagement. To investigate emotional modulation of attention network activation, we used a functional MRI paradigm ...

In this work we investigate the influence that nicotine exerts on attention focusing, modeling the coupling of reward and thalamocortical circuits. Each neuron in the neural networks that replicate such circuits is described ...

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 ...

Executive functions (EFs) are cognitive functions needed for adaptive and targeted behavior. Music aptitude is the potential or capacity for musical achievement. A key element of music aptitude is audiation, defined as the ...