Title : 1 Real-time decoding of covert attention in higher-order visual areas 2 3 4 5 6

1 Real-time decoding of covert attention in higher-order visual areas 2 3 4 5 6 Authors: 7 Jinendra Ekanayake, Chloe Hutton, Gerard Ridgway, Frank Scharnowski, 8 Nikolaus Weiskopf, Geraint Rees 9 10 Institutions: 11 Wellcome Trust Centre for Interventional and Surgical Sciences, University College 12 London, London, United Kingdom, 13 Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University College London, London, 14 United Kingdom, 15 Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, London, United 16 Kingdom, 17 Siemens Molecular Imaging, Oxford, United Kingdom, 18 University of Oxford, Headington, United Kingdom, 19 Psychiatric University Hospital, University of Zürich, Lenggstrasse 31, 8032 Zürich, 20 Switzerland 21 7 Neuroscience Center Zürich, University of Zürich and Swiss Federal Institute of 22 Technology, Winterthurerstr. 190, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland 23 Zürich Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZIHP), University of Zürich, 24 Winterthurerstr. 190, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland 25 Department of Neurophysics, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain 26 Sciences, Leipzig, Germany 27 28 29 30 31 Corresponding Author 32 Jinendra Ekanayake j.ekanayake@ucl.ac.uk 33 34 35 36 37 Address 38 Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, 39 12 Queen Square, WC1N 3AR 40 41