Michael I. Posner

Orienting of Attention

Bartlett viewed thinking as a high level skill exhibiting ballistic properties that he called its “point of no return”. This paper explores one aspect of cognition through the u...

14 Attention and the Control of Movements

Chronometric explorations of mind

The Attention System of the Human Brain

The brain's default mode network consists of discrete, bilateral and symmetrical cortical areas, in the medial and lateral parietal, medial prefrontal, and medial and lateral te...

Positron emission tomographic studies of the cortical anatomy of single-word processing

Components of attention.

Isolating attentional systems: A cognitive-anatomical analysis

Cumulative development of attentional theory.

This article describes current work in selective attention within a framework derived from important findings extending back over a century. The contributions of Danders, Helmho...

Effects of parietal lesions on visual matching: Implications for reading errors

Abstract Three groups of subjects, left and right parietal patients and neurologically intact controls, performed a visual matching task. Two strings of letters that were either...

Attention And Cognitive Control 1

To what extent are our conscious intentions and strategies in control of the way information is processed in our minds? This seems to be a question of importance to us both as p...

On the functions of consciousness