“Rare” emotive faces and attentional orienting.

Attentional Orienting and Scene Semantics

The Frontal Cortex and Exogenous Attentional Orienting

Normal functioning of the attentional orienting system is critical for effective behavior and is predicated on a balanced interaction between goal-directed (endogenous) processes and stimulus-driven (exogenous) processes. Although both systems have been subject to much investigation, little is known about the neural underpinnings of exogenous orienting. In the present study, we examined the ear...

Inference-driven Mechanisms of Attentional Orienting

In this paper we present some empirical data in support of a new view of attentional orienting, according to which (a) some basic mechanisms of attentional deployment (i.e. its high efficiency in dealing with expected and unexpected inputs) meet the requirements of the inferential system, and have possibly evolved to support its functioning; and (b) these orienting mechanisms function in very s...

Adults with dyslexia demonstrate attentional orienting deficits.

Alerting, orienting and executive control of attention are investigated in five adult cases of dyslexia. In comparison with a control group, alerting and executive control were found to be generally intact for each case. Two spatial cueing tasks were employed. For the task requiring target detection, orienting difficulties were evident only in peripheral locations. While orienting attention to ...

Biological motion cues trigger reflexive attentional orienting.

The human visual system is extremely sensitive to biological signals around us. In the current study, we demonstrate that biological motion walking direction can induce robust reflexive attentional orienting. Following a brief presentation of a central point-light walker walking towards either the left or right direction, observers' performance was significantly better on a target in the walkin...