The past 10 years have brought near-revolutionary changes in psychological theories about
short-term memory, with similarly great advances in the neurosciences. Here, we critically …

▪ Abstract Over the past decade, the study of attention in infancy has seen dramatic progress.
This review delineates four attentional functions (alertness, spatial orienting, attention to …

Miller (1956) summarized evidence that people can remember about seven chunks in short-
term memory (STM) tasks. However, that number was meant more as a rough estimate and …

The idea of one's memory" filling up" is a humorous misconception of how memory in
general is thought to work; it is actually has no capacity limit. However, the idea of a" full …

Much of our interaction with the visual world requires us to isolate some currently important
objects from other less important objects. This task becomes more difficult when objects …

Our mental experience can be described as a stream of activities that includes perceptions,
memories, feelings, intentions, images, beliefs, and desires. Several of these activities may …

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 …

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 …

The study of object cognition over the past 25 years has proceeded in two largely non-
interacting camps. One camp has studied object-based visual attention in adults, while the …