Highlights•We reviewed the evidence on the role alpha oscillations might play in
attention.•There is an abundance of support for alpha power playing a functional inhibitory …

Distractor suppression, or the ability to disregard salient distractors while dealing with task-
relevant information, is a key component of selective attention. Recent research has shown …

Prestimulus oscillatory neural activity has been linked to perceptual outcomes during
performance of psychophysical detection and discrimination tasks. Specifically, the power …

Behavioral consequences and neural underpinnings of visuospatial attention have long
been investigated. Classical studies using the Posner paradigm have found that visual …

In principle, selective attention is the net result of target selection and distractor suppression.
The way in which both mechanisms are implemented neurally has remained contested …

Alpha-band (8–12 Hz) EEG activity has been linked to visual attention since the earliest EEG
studies. More recent studies using spatial cuing paradigms have shown that alpha is …

Multisensory perception is shaped by both attentional selection of relevant sensory inputs
and exploitation of stimulus-driven factors that promote cross-modal binding. Underlying …

Decades of research in attention have shown that salient distractors (eg, a color singleton)
tend to capture attention. However, in most studies, singleton distractors are just as likely to …

The functional inhibition account states that alpha-band (8–14 Hz) power implements
attentional control by selectively inhibiting task-irrelevant neural representations. This …

Rhythmic visual stimulation (“flicker”) is primarily used to “tag” processing of low-level visual
and high-level cognitive phenomena. However, preliminary evidence suggests that flicker …