Five important trends have emerged from recent work on computational models of focal
visual attention that emphasize the bottom-up, image-based control of attentional …

An important component of routine visual behavior is the ability to find one item in a visual
world filled with other, distracting items. This ability to perform visual search has been the …

This book achieves a goal that was set 25 years ago when the HAM theory of human
memory was published. This theory reflected one of a number of then-current efforts to …

Research on attention has evolved dramatically in recent years. There are now many new
ways of studying how we are able to select some aspects for processing, whilst ignoring …

Immediately following an event at a peripheral location there is facilitation for the processing
of other stimuli near that location. This is said to reflect a reflexive shift of attention towards …

Abstract Space-and object-based attention components were examined in neurologically
normal and parietal-lesion subjects, who detected a luminance change at 1 of 4 ends of 2 …

▪ Abstract Three central problems in the recent literature on visual attention are reviewed.
The first concerns the control of attention by top-down (or goal-directed) and bottom-up (or …

Working memory (WM) is the set of mental processes holding limited information in a
temporarily accessible state in service of cognition. We provide a theoretical framework to …

Summary In Shakespeare's Henry IV Part 1, the Scottish rebel, the Earl of Douglas, engages
in a visual search task. He is searching for King Henry in a field full of soldiers who are not …

Research on attention is concerned with selective processing of incoming sensory
information. To some extent, our awareness of the world depends on what we choose to …