▪ Abstract Recent progress in the study of attention and performance is discussed, focusing
on the nature of attentional control and the effects of practice. Generally speaking, the effects …

The surprise–attention hypothesis assumes a strong connection between surprise—
expectancy discrepant events—and attention. Attention is easily engaged with surprising …

Students often “multitask” with electronic media while doing schoolwork. We examined the
effects of one form of media often used in such multitasking, instant messaging (IM). We …

This paper investigates the temporal dependencies of natural vision by measuring eye and
hand movements while subjects made a sandwich. The phenomenon of change blindness …

Selective visual attention to objects and locations depends both on deliberate behavioral
goals that regulate even early visual representations (goal-directed influences) and on …

It is often assumed that the efficient detection of salient visual objects in search reflects
stimulus-driven attentional capture. Evidence for this assumption, however, comes from …

Seven experiments examine the influence of contextual timing manipulations on prospective
time judgments. Subjects judged durations of standard vs comparison time intervals in the …

The authors propose that there are 2 different mechanisms whereby spatial cues capture
attention. The voluntary mechanism is the strategic allocation of perceptual resources to the …

The highly task-specific fixation patterns revealed in performance of natural tasks
demonstrate the fundamentally active nature of vision, and suggest that in many situations …

Abstract visual attention refers to the process of selecting a portion of the available sensory
information for object identification and localization/just what is selected in any given …