▪ Abstract Three central problems in the recent literature on visual attention are reviewed.
The first concerns the control of attention by top-down (or goal-directed) and bottom-up (or …

Over the past several decades, a corpus of research has emerged detailing the therapeutic
outcomes and processes of mindfulness. The emergence of the field of contemplative …

There is considerable evidence that visual attention is concentrated at a single locus in the
visual field, and that this locus can be moved independent of eye movements. Two studies …

Research on attention has evolved dramatically in recent years. There are now many new
ways of studying how we are able to select some aspects for processing, whilst ignoring …

Human observers fixated the center of a search array and were required to discriminate the
color of an odd target if it was present. The array consisted of horizontal or vertical black or …

Recently, there have been a number of advances in technology, including in mobile devices,
globalization of companies, display technologies and healthcare, all of which require …

This paper hypothesizes a resource-limited mechanism, called a FINST, for individuating or
indexing visual features, as distinct from encoding their type or location. FINSTs have the …

Two types of theories have been advanced to account for how attention is allocated in
performing goal-directed visual tasks. According to location-based theories, visual attention …

A number of important models of information processing depend on whether processing is
serial or parallel. However, many of the studies purporting to settle the case use weak …

This article presents a theory of selective attention that is intended to account for the
identification of a visual shape in a cluttered display. The selected area of attention is …