Workshop report: What is Attention?

On April 21st – 22nd 2017, we held a workshop at Carnegie Mellon University, called What is Attention? The core organising group was Wayne Wu (Carnegie Mellon University), Britt Anderson (University of Waterloo), Rich Krauzlis (National Eye Institute), and myself Ben Vincent (University of Dundee). We had an esteemed set of attendees (see below) who …

How do we use the past to predict the future in oculomotor search?

When we conduct visual search for an item of interest we can not only ask ‘what looks like my target’ but we can also ask ‘where do I expect the target to be?’ In a forthcoming paper in the journal Vision Research I asked: how do we use our past experience to construct predictions of where a …