ERC Consolidator Grant · 2025
A Computational Theory of Rhythmic Attentional Sampling Functions
For every action, we see, hear, touch, smell and taste our surroundings. Our senses constantly receive a seemingly unmanageable flow of sensory signals. Attention is the mental function that selects relevant sensory information and ameliorate their processing by the brain to efficiently guide our actions. The recent years witnessed a paradigm shift in the field of attention research. Opposite to our impression that one can deploy attention continuously over short time periods, attention in fact processes perceptual information rhythmically. This rhythmic attentional sampling leads to phases of improved perceptual performance alternating with phases of diminished performance. So far, the…
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