Humans are remarkably limited in:(i) how many control-dependent tasks they can execute
simultaneously, and (ii) how intensely they can focus on a single task. These limitations are …

Visual search, a vital task for humans and animals, has also become a common and
important tool for studying many topics central to active vision and cognition ranging from …

A 2-process theory of human information processing is proposed and applied to detection,
search, and attention phenomena. Automatic processing is activation of a learned sequence …

Develops a theory of memory retrieval and shows that it applies over a range of
experimental paradigms. Access to memory traces is viewed in terms of a resonance …

A series of search experiments tested detection of targets distinguished from the distractors
by differences on a single dimension. Our aim was to use the pattern of search latencies to …

In speaking and listening people make essential use of a great deal of world knowledge that
they" share" with each other. The question is, what kind of" shared" knowledge do they use …

Examined the effect of temporal discontinuity on visual search in 3 studies with 57 college
students with normal uncorrected vision. Ss were presented with a display in which 1 item …

When we think of the ways we use language, we think of face-to-face conversations,
telephone conversations, reading and writing, and even talking to oneself. These are arenas …

More than one third of the human brain is devoted to the processes of seeing-vision is after
all the main way in which we gather information about the world. But human vision is a …

First published in 1979. Basic research, at its essence, is exploration of the unknown. When
it is successful, isolated pieces of reality are deciphered and described. Most of the history of …