"Everyone is talking about it, no one has seen it." One could almost sum up the paradox of attention in this way. This faculty that we agree to place at the heart of our executive functions. Protean, crossing spatial and temporal scales, and of which we sometimes forget that its resources are not unlimited, of which we still wonder about its links with consciousness, of which we are still struggling to forge a mathematical theory since influencial works of William James, attention is on everyone's lips.

Attention has a profound impact on perception, learning and decision making, hence on our performance in this densely connected and rapidly changing world. Attention can be lacking, from infancy to adulthood. It is also an object of desire and has aquired a high economic value. All these reasons push us to observe it, to manipulate it, to improve it, and therefore to understand it.

Whether one is interested in a particular neurological or psychiatric disorder, whether one is studying a particular cognitive process, the role of attention cannot be ignored. And all of these approaches shed light on attentional processes but are rarely confronted. For this one-day translational workshop, we wanted to make attention the main topic of discussion, and to do so, bring together the views of international experts, clinicians and researchers, with highly complementary perspectives. Pay attention to the program, it speaks for itself.