It is nearly 35 years since I gave the 7th Sir Frederick Bartlett lecture at Oxford University.
This was published as a paper entitled “Orienting of attention in the quarterly journal”. The …

The nature of the relationship between spatial attention and eye movements has been the
subject of intense debate for more than 40 years. Two ideas have dominated this debate …

It is well known that salient yet task irrelevant stimuli may capture our eyes independent of
our goals and intentions. The present study shows that a task-irrelevant stimulus that is …

Theoretical models of social phobia propose that biased attention contributes to the
maintenance of symptoms; however these theoretical models make opposing predictions …

Humans and other animals with foveate vision make saccadic eye movements to prioritize
the visual analysis of behaviorally relevant information. Even before movement onset, visual …

Classic spatial cueing experiments have demonstrated that salient cues have the ability to
summon attention as evidenced by performance benefits when the cue validly indicates the …

Efficient processing of complex social and biological stimuli associated with threat is crucial
for survival. Previous studies have suggested that threatening stimuli such as angry faces …

Trajectories of attention capture the accumulation of brand utility during complex decision-
making tasks. Thus, attention trajectories, as reflected in eye movements, predict the final …

Visual short-term memory (VSTM) is a crucial repository of information when events unfold
rapidly before our eyes, yet it maintains only a fraction of the sensory information encoded …

Models of visual attention rely on visual features such as orientation, intensity or motion to
predict which regions of complex scenes attract the gaze of observers. So far, sound has …