title: Mechanisms of selective attention: response enhancement, noise reduction, and efficient pooling of sensory responses.
abstract: In this issue of Neuron, Pestilli and coworkers provide evidence that response gain and noise reduction are insufficient to account for attention-induced changes in perception. Instead, selection may critically depend on the biased pooling of sensory signals during decision making.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Graduate Program, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0109, USA.
authors.forename: John T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Serences