Although the study of visual perception has made more progress in the past 40 years than
any other area of cognitive science, there remain major disagreements as to how closely …

This paper argues that a theory of situated vision, suited for the dual purposes of object
recognition and the control of action, will have to provide something more than a system that …

In Seeing and Visualizing, Zenon Pylyshyn argues that seeing is different from thinking and
that to see is not, as it may seem intuitively, to create an inner replica of the world. Pylyshyn …

In 7 experiments, the authors explored whether visual attention (the ability to select relevant
visual information) and visual working memory (the ability to retain relevant visual …

Problems in linking representation and perceived things in the world are discussed in light of
the role played by a preconceptual indexing mechanism that functions to identify, reidentify …

In three experiments, subjects attempted to track multiple items as they moved
independently and unpredictably about a display. Performance was not impaired when the …

Human adults can assess the number of objects in a set (numerosity) by approximate
estimation or by exact counting. There is evidence suggesting that numerosity estimation …

The task of tracking a small number (about four or five) visual targets within a larger set of
identical items, each of which moves randomly and independently, has been used …

On convient généralement que, quel que soit le mode de contrôle (endogène ou exogène),
il ne peut y avoir qu'un centre d'attention visuelle à la fois. Ceci dit, comment établit-on les …

A rigorous analysis of current empirical and theoretical work supporting the argument that
consciousness and attention are largely dissociated. In this book, Carlos Montemayor and …