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 …

Perception of a complex visual scene requires that important regions be prioritized and
attentionally selected for processing. What is the basis for this selection? Although much …

What is attention? How does attention shape consciousness? In an approach that engages
with foundational topics in the philosophy of mind, the theory of action, psychology, and the …

How do people distribute their visual attention in the natural environment? We and our
colleagues have usually addressed this question by showing pictures, photographs or …

Applied Attention Theory, Second Edition provides details concerning the relevance of all
aspects of attention to the world beyond the laboratory. Topic application areas include the …

Understanding how people comprehend visual narratives (including picture stories, comics,
and film) requires the combination of traditionally separate theories that span the initial …

Saliency map models account for a small but significant amount of the variance in where
people fixate, but evaluating these models with natural stimuli has led to mixed results. In the …

Human visual attention operates in a context that is complex, social and dynamic. To explore
this, we recorded people taking part in a group decision-making task and then showed video …

We can locate an object more quickly in a real-world scene when a specific target template
is held in visual working memory, but it is not known exactly how a target template's …

Two contrasting views of visual attention in scenes are the visual salience and the cognitive
relevance hypotheses. They fundamentally differ in their conceptualization of the …