Here, we update our 1990 Annual Review of Neuroscience article,“The Attention System of
the Human Brain.” The framework presented in the original article has helped to integrate …

The concept of attention as central to human performance extends back to the start of
experimental psychology (James 1890), yet even a few years ago, it would not have been …

The two basic phenomena that define the problem of visual attention can be illustrated in a
simple example. Consider the arrays shown in each panel of Figure 1. In a typical …

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 …

A new theory of search and visual attention is presented. Results support neither a
distinction between serial and parallel search nor between search for features and …

Does metacognition, ie the capacity to form epistemic self-evaluations about one's current
cognitive performance, derive from a mindreading capacity, or does it rely, at least in part, on …

Presents a theory of the inhibition of thought and action to account for people's performance
in situations that require them to stop or change their current thoughts and actions. The …

People often have trouble performing 2 relatively simple tasks concurrently. The causes of
this interference and its implications for the nature of attentional limitations have been …

This is a Classic Edition of Adrian Wells and Gerald Matthews' award-winning textbook on
attention and emotion, which now includes new section introductions. The book won the …

As a cognitive neuropsychologist, Tim Shallice considers the general question of what can
be learned about the operation of the normal cognitive system from the study of the cognitive …