Abstract Models of gaze allocation in complex scenes are derived mainly from studies of
static picture viewing. The dominant framework to emerge has been image salience, where …

This article reviews the past 25years of research on eye movements (1986–2011).
Emphasis is on three oculomotor behaviors: gaze control, smooth pursuit and saccades, and …

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 …

Attention exhibits characteristic neural signatures in brain regions that process sensory
signals. An important area of future research is to understand the nature of top-down signals …

Many cells in retinotopic brain areas increase their activity when saccades (rapid eye
movements) are about to bring stimuli into their receptive fields. Although previous work has …

Visual attention is the mechanism the nervous system uses to highlight specific locations,
objects or features within the visual field. This can be accomplished by making an eye …

Based on lesion mapping studies, the inferior parietal lobule and temporoparietal junction
are considered the critical parietal regions for spatial-attentional deficits. Lesion evidence for …

The notion of a saliency-based processing architecture underlying human vision is central to
a number of current theories of visual selective attention. On this view, focal-attention is …

How our vision remains stable in spite of the interruptions produced by saccadic eye
movements has been a repeatedly revisited perceptual puzzle. The major hypothesis is that …

Motor reaction times in humans are highly variable from one trial to the next, even for simple
and automatic tasks, such as shifting your gaze to a suddenly appearing target. Although …