Attention and Time

Anna Christina Nobre is Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and Tutorial Fellow in Psychology at New College Oxford. She is Director of the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity, Head of the Brain & Cognition Laboratory, Co-Director of the Oxford Social Neuroscience Laboratory, and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Neurology at Northwestern University in Chicago. The aim of her research is to reveal the organizational principles of the neural systems supporting cognitive functions in the human brain. Her current work focuses on the dynamic regulation of perception, action and memory by changing predictions, task goals and motivation. Her research combines complementary non-invasive techniques to investigate the human brain at work (e.g., MEG, EEG, fMRI, TMS). http://www.neuroscience.ox.ac.uk/directory/kia-nobre Jennifer Coull's research career began in 1991 at the University of Cambridge, where she completed her PhD thesis on the psychopharmacology of human attentional and executive processes. In 1994, she moved to the Functional Imaging Laboratory (FIL) of the Institute of Neuroscience, University College London in order to combine psychopharmacological techniques with functional neuroimaging. It was here that her interest in specifically temporal aspects of attention developed, with investigations of both sustained attention and temporal orienting using PET and the recently developed technique of fMRI. Here also was the birthplace of her long-term collaboration and friendship with co-editor Anna Christina (Kia) Nobre. After 7 years in London she moved to the University of Provence in Marseille. Here, again using fMRI, she continued her to explore the multi-faceted relationship between attention and time by studying how attention can modulate the perception of time itself.

SECTION 1: ATTENTION IS LIMITED IN TIME ; 1. Attending to emerging representations: the importance of task context and time of response ; 2. Inhibition of return ; 3. The Attentional blink: temporal constraints on consciousness ; 4. The attentional boost and the attentional blink ; 5. A stream of thought: temporal organization of mental operations ; 6. Vigilant attention ; 7. Prior entry: attention and temporal perception ; SECTION 2: TIME PERCEPTION IS MODULATED BY ATTENTION, PERCEPTION AND ACTION ; 8. Timing, resources, and interference: attentional modulation of time perception ; 9. Mental timing and the central attentional bottleneck ; 10. Attention underlies subjective temporal expansion ; 11. Duration illusions and predictability ; 12. Temporal dilation: the chronostasis illusion and spatial attention ; 13. Space-time in the brain ; 14. Modulation of time perception by visual adaptation ; 15. Temporal binding ; SECTION 3: DIRECTING ATTENTION IN TIME ENHANCES PERCEPTION AND ACTION ; SECTION 3A: TEMPORAL PREDICTIONS INHERENT IN THE TEMPORAL STRUCTURE OF EVENTS ; 16. Behavioural adaptation to redundant frequency distributions in time ; 17. On the locus of temporal preparation: enhancement of pre-motor processes? ; 18. Excitatory and inhibitory motor mechanisms of temporal preparation ; 19. Timing structures neuronal activity during preparation for action ; 20. The neural basis of temporal prediction and the role of dopamine ; 21. Foreperiod and Sequential Effects: theory and data ; 22. Neuroanatomical substrates of foreperiod effects ; 23. Attending to sound patterns and the role of entrainment ; 24. Electrophysiological markers of foreperiod effects ; 25. Neural bases of rhythm prediction ; SECTION 3B: TEMPORAL PREDICTIONS GUIDED BY ENDOGENOUS CUES ; 26. Enhancing behavioural performance by visual temporal orienting ; 27. How can temporal expectations bias perception and action? ; 28. Temporal orienting in audition, touch, and across modalities ; 29. Neurophysiology of temporal orienting in ventral visual stream ; 30. Temporal prediction during duration perception ; 31. Neural substrates of temporal attentional orienting