The Cognitive Neuroscience of Selective Attention

Attention is our ability to select information relevant to behavior; focusing our limited cognitive/neural resources on those stimuli and thoughts that are critical to our current task. This course will review the neuroscience of selective attention, from the theoretical foundations provided by cognitive psychology to the neural underpinnings identified by systems neuroscience. The course will present a 'hands on' science experience, combining experimental demonstrations and discussions of current research topics to learn the design and analyses of contemporary experiments in the attention field.