Visual feature integration theory was one of the most influential theories of visual information
processing in the last quarter of the 20th century. This article provides an exposition of the …

The psychological structure of cognition is often inferred from conjoint measures of
behaviour (such as reaction time) and brain activation (such as cerebral blood flow). In many …

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 …

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 …

In everyday tasks, selecting actions in the proper sequence requires a continuously updated
representation of temporal context. Previous models have addressed this problem by …

This book presents a review of research on reaction processes and attention as it has
evolved over the last 40 years in the context of the information processing tradition in …

What you see is determined by what you attend to. At any given time, the environment
presents far more perceptual information than can be effectively processed. Visual attention …

The way the cognitive system scans the visual environment for relevant information–visual
search in short–has been a long-standing central topic in vision science. From its inception …

Publisher Summary In naturally occurring search situations, eye movements form the most
effective way of sampling the visual field. This chapter analyzes the concept of “covert visual …

A core distinction in Anne Treisman's feature-integration theory (FIT) is in that between
parallel and serial search. We outline this dichotomy and selectively review the reasons why …