The frontal eye field (FEF) plays a well-established role in the control of visual attention. The strength of an FEF neuron’s response to a visual stimulus presented in its receptive field is enhanced if the stimulus captures spatial attention by virt…
Making choices about whether and when to engage cognitive effort are a common feature of everyday experience, with important consequences for academic, career, and health outcomes. Yet, despite their hypothesized importance, very little is understood …
Attention and decision-making processes are fundamental to cognition. However, they are usually experimentally confounded, making it difficult to link neural observations to specific processes. Here we separated the effects of selective attention from…
Navigation requires integrating sensory information with a stable schema to create a dynamic map of an animal’s position using egocentric and allocentric coordinate systems. In the hippocampus, place cells encode allocentric space, but their fir…
Millisecond-scale temporal spiking patterns encode sensory information in the periphery, but their role in the neocortex remains controversial. The sense of touch provides a window into temporal coding because tactile neurons often exhibit precise, re…
The role of experience in the development and maintenance of emergent network properties such as cortical oscillations and states is poorly understood. To define how early-life experience affects cortical dynamics in the visual cortex of adult, head-f…
People parse continuous experiences at natural breakpoints called event boundaries, which is important for understanding an environment’s causal structure and for responding to uncertainty within it. However, it remains unclear how different forms of …