Ph.D Student

Email: wangbenchi@163.com

Stimulus-driven and goal-directed attention
When multiple competing stimuli are present in the environment, a central question in cognitive neuroscience is how the brain allocates attention between “stimulus-driven” and “goal-directed” control processes. Stimulus-driven attention, particularly salience-based orienting, enables rapid detection of novel or unexpected events, supporting adaptive behavior in unpredictable contexts. In contrast, goal-directed control maintains task priorities, suppresses distractors, and stabilizes cognition over time. Using intracranial EEG (iEEG), I investigate how the brain represents salience and goal-directed control signals, and how it regulates the influence of task-irrelevant salient information.