Pub Date : 2026-02-01Epub Date: 2025-07-08DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.06.004
Daniele Re, Flor Kusnir, Ayelet N Landau
Navigating the environment involves engaging with multiple objects, each activating specific neuronal populations. When objects appear together, these populations compete. Classical attention theories suggest that selection involves biasing one population over another. Recent research shows that perception fluctuates over time at ~8 Hz for single-object attention and 4 Hz for two-object attention, possibly because of the division of the 8-Hz rhythm between competing objects. This opinion surveys these fluctuations, coined 'attentional sampling,' across the visual hierarchy. We propose that sampling is a selection mechanism that negotiates neuronal competition. It manifests as early as eye channels and extends to complex features higher in the visual hierarchy. We discuss the cognitive significance of this mechanism and its potential neuronal implementation.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-26DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.12.006
Daniel A. Abrams, Simon Leipold, Daniel L. Bowling
Children with autism often struggle to tune in to voices, missing important cues for social connection and language learning. What underlies this diminished engagement? Neuroimaging evidence implicates disrupted connectivity between voice-selective temporal regions and brain networks supporting reward, salience, and social cognition, leading to a new neural model of vocal insensitivity in autism.
{"title":"A dysfunctional hub model of voice–reward integration in autism","authors":"Daniel A. Abrams, Simon Leipold, Daniel L. Bowling","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.12.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.12.006","url":null,"abstract":"Children with autism often struggle to tune in to voices, missing important cues for social connection and language learning. What underlies this diminished engagement? Neuroimaging evidence implicates disrupted connectivity between voice-selective temporal regions and brain networks supporting reward, salience, and social cognition, leading to a new neural model of vocal insensitivity in autism.","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146047864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-21DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.009
Toan Nong, Jun Feng, Jean-Claude Dreher
{"title":"Neurocomputational mechanisms of adaptive mentalization in humans","authors":"Toan Nong, Jun Feng, Jean-Claude Dreher","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146014386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-21DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.12.009
Halely Balaban, Tomer D. Ullman
{"title":"Emotion may indirectly link rendering and social reasoning","authors":"Halely Balaban, Tomer D. Ullman","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.12.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.12.009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146014451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-20DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.014
Adam Zeman, Bérengère Digard, Francesca Happé, Brian Levine, Merlin Monzel
{"title":"Rendering aphantasia into the social realm","authors":"Adam Zeman, Bérengère Digard, Francesca Happé, Brian Levine, Merlin Monzel","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.11.014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.9,"publicationDate":"2026-01-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146014387","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-15DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.12.002
Giacomo Aldegheri, Roland W Fleming
{"title":"No free lunch with the binding problem.","authors":"Giacomo Aldegheri, Roland W Fleming","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.12.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.12.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145991269","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-14DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2025.12.003
Christian Beste, Heleen A Slagter, Christian Herff, Yukiyasu Kamitani, Sabrina Coninx, Richard van Wezel, Christian Frings
Brain-computer interface (BCI) research has achieved remarkable technical progress but remains limited in scope, typically relying on motor and visual cortex signals in limited patient populations. We propose a paradigm shift in BCI design rooted in ideomotor theory, which conceptualizes voluntary action as driven by internally represented sensory outcomes. This underused framework offers a principled basis for next-generation BCIs that align closely with the brain's natural intentional and action-planning architecture. We suggest a more intuitive, generalizable, and scalable path by reorienting BCIs around the 'what for' of action-user goals and anticipated effects. This shift is timely and feasible, enabled by advances in neural recording and artificial intelligence-based decoding of sensory representations. It may help resolve challenges of usability and generalizability in BCI design.
{"title":"Moving intentions from brains to machines.","authors":"Christian Beste, Heleen A Slagter, Christian Herff, Yukiyasu Kamitani, Sabrina Coninx, Richard van Wezel, Christian Frings","doi":"10.1016/j.tics.2025.12.003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2025.12.003","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Brain-computer interface (BCI) research has achieved remarkable technical progress but remains limited in scope, typically relying on motor and visual cortex signals in limited patient populations. We propose a paradigm shift in BCI design rooted in ideomotor theory, which conceptualizes voluntary action as driven by internally represented sensory outcomes. This underused framework offers a principled basis for next-generation BCIs that align closely with the brain's natural intentional and action-planning architecture. We suggest a more intuitive, generalizable, and scalable path by reorienting BCIs around the 'what for' of action-user goals and anticipated effects. This shift is timely and feasible, enabled by advances in neural recording and artificial intelligence-based decoding of sensory representations. It may help resolve challenges of usability and generalizability in BCI design.</p>","PeriodicalId":49417,"journal":{"name":"Trends in Cognitive Sciences","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.2,"publicationDate":"2026-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145991282","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-06DOI: 10.1016/s1364-6613(25)00363-8
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