title: Attentional selection in visual perception, memory and action: a quest for cross-domain integration.
abstract: For decades, the cognitive and neural sciences have benefitted greatly from a separation of mind and brain into distinct functional domains. The tremendous success of this approach notwithstanding, it is self-evident that such a view is incomplete. Goal-directed behaviour of an organism requires the joint functioning of perception, memory and sensorimotor control. A prime candidate for achieving integration across these functional domains are attentional processes. Consequently, this Theme Issue brings together studies of attentional selection from many fields, both experimental and theoretical, that are united in their quest to find overreaching integrative principles of attention between perception, memory and action. In all domains, attention is understood as combination of competition and priority control ('bias'), with the task as a decisive driving factor to ensure coherent goal-directed behaviour and cognition. Using vision as the predominant model system for attentional selection, many studies of this Theme Issue focus special emphasis on eye movements as a selection process that is both a fundamental action and serves a key function in perception. The Theme Issue spans a wide range of methods, from measuring human behaviour in the real word to recordings of single neurons in the non-human primate brain. We firmly believe that combining such a breadth in approaches is necessary not only for attentional selection, but also to take the next decisive step in all of the cognitive and neural sciences: to understand cognition and behaviour beyond isolated domains.
authors.affiliation: Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Center of Excellence (CITEC), Bielefeld University, , Bielefeld, Germany.
authors.forename: Werner X
authors.initials: WX
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Einhäuser
authors.forename: Gernot
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Horstmann
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D006040:Goals; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology*; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: attention; biased competition; priority; real world; task; vision
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