Visual Cognition Books

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11. Attentional Capture

    A Special Issue of Visual Cognition

    Edited by Bradley S. Gibson, Charles Folk, Jan Theeuwes, Alan Kingstone

    Series: Special Issues of Visual Cognition

    The notion that certain mental or physical events can capture attention has been one of the most enduring topics in the study of attention owing to the importance of understanding how goal-directed and stimulus-driven processes interact in perception and cognition. Despite the clear theoretical and...

    Published April 15th 2008 by Psychology Press
12. Space and Sense

    By Susanna Millar

    Series: Essays in Cognitive Psychology

    How do we perceive the space around us, locate objects within it, and make our way through it? What do the senses contribute? This book focuses on touch in order to examine which aspects of vision and touch overlap in spatial processing. It argues that spatial processing depends crucially on...

    Published April 6th 2008 by Psychology Press
13. Studies in Perception and Action IX

    Fourteenth International Conference on Perception and Action

    Edited by Sarah Cummins-Sebree, Michael A. Riley, Kevin Shockley

    Series: Studies in Perception and Action

    The edited book series Studies in Perception and Action contains a collection of research presented at the International Conference on Perception and Action (ICPA). The Studies series has appeared in conjunction with the biennial ICPA since 1991. ICPA provides a forum for presenting new data,...

    Published July 8th 2007 by Psychology Press
14. Visual Communication

    Integrating Media, Art, and Science

    By Rick Williams, Julianne Newton

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    A well-rounded education in the 21st century requires not just verbal and mathematical proficiency, but also the ability to interpret, critique, create, and use visual communication on sophisticated levels. In today’s visual world, it is critically important to hold an appreciation for the...

    Published July 3rd 2007 by Routledge
15. The Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology: Volume II

    Memory for People

    Edited by R.C.L. Lindsay, David F. Ross, J. Don Read, Michael P. Toglia

    The Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology presents a survey of research and legal opinions from international experts on the rapidly expanding scientific literature addressing the accuracy and limitations of eyewitnesses as a source of evidence for the courts. For the first time, extensive...

    Published February 12th 2007 by Psychology Press
16. The Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology: Volume I

    Memory for Events

    Edited by Michael P. Toglia, J. Don Read, David F. Ross, R.C.L. Lindsay

    The Handbook of Eyewitness Psychology presents a survey of research and legal opinions from international experts on the rapidly expanding scientific literature addressing the accuracy and limitations of eyewitnesses as a source of evidence for the courts. For the first time, extensive...

    Published November 12th 2006 by Psychology Press
17. Visual Search and Attention

    A Special Issue of Visual Cognition

    Edited by Herman Muller, Joseph Krummenacher

    Series: Special Issues of Visual Cognition

    This special issue of Visual Cognition collects some 30 articles on Visual Search and Attention by leading experts from a variety of disciplines, including experimental psychology, neuropsychology, neurophysiology and computational modelling. The articles are updated versions of papers presented at...

    Published September 13th 2006 by Psychology Press
18. Age of Acquisition Effects in Word and Object Processing

    A Special Issue of Visual Cognition

    Edited by Chris Barry, Robert A. Johnston

    Series: Special Issues of Visual Cognition

    Models of word and object processing have been informed by experimental data relating to the effects of important marker variables, particularly word frequency. In recent times, however, the role of word frequency has come to be questioned due to the demonstration of the impact of a correlated...

    Published June 21st 2006 by Psychology Press
19. The Psychology of Attention

    2nd Edition

    By Elizabeth Styles

    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 others, and how we are able to combine tasks, learn skills and make intentional actions. Attention is increasingly seen as a...

    Published May 31st 2006 by Psychology Press
20. Real World Scene Perception

    A Special Issue of Visual Cognition

    Edited by John M. Henderson

    Series: Special Issues of Visual Cognition

    The current volume, a special issue of Visual Cognition, brings together an eclectic group of investigators, all of whom study critical issues in the perception of true real-world scenes. Topics include the rapid acquisition of scene gist; scene recognition; spatial layout and...

    Published September 28th 2005 by Psychology Press