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• What is the importance of selective attention in neural modulation?
• What is the difference between the bottom-up (involuntary) and voluntary influences on selection? Why are they important?
• What are some examples of modulation of cortical activity?
• What are some sources of attentional-modulation signals?
• Describe the psychological as well as biological aspects of attention.

• What are the possible reasons for older individuals experiencing selective attention failure?
• How do older individuals attend to potential threat regions differently than younger individuals?
• What impact could training have on selective attention failure? What training might be utilized that could decrease scanning errors?

• What is attentional blink, and why has it been a focus of perception research?
• How does attentional blink effect precision in perception and decision making?
• Is perception affected more by encoding targets or from modulation of the precision of target representations?

• How do one’s senses attend to multiple stimuli at once? How does selective attention relate to the overlap of redundant information?
• What is an example of amodal overlapping information?
• What is the basis of the intersensory redundancy hypothesis? What does the IRH seek to predict?

• What is change-blindness? What is the history of research involving change-blindness?
• What are the core conclusions of the change-detection literature?
• What conclusions have arisen from studying change-blindness that contradict with other research on perception?
• What is required for successful change detection?