This book explains how humans process, retain, and learn from sensory information. Citing recent research and using new computational models and methodologies, cognitive experts describe how vision, memory, and attention interconnect to influence human information processing.

Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction 
Charles Chubb, Barbara A. Dosher, Zhong-Lin Lu, and Richard M. Shiffrin
Part I: Vision
Chapter 1: Two Visual Contrast Processes: One New, One Old 
Norma Graham and S. Sabina Wolfson
Chapter 2: The Incompatibility of Feature Contrast and Feature Acuity 
Joshua A. Solomon and Isabelle Mareschal
Chapter 3: The Analysis of Visual Motion and Smooth Pursuit Eye Movements 
Miriam Spering and Karl R. Gegenfurtner
Chapter 4: The Analytic Form of the Daylight Locus 
Geoffrey Iverson and Charles Chubb
Part II: Memory and Information Processing
Chapter 5: Equisalience Analysis: A New Window Into the Functional Architecture of Human Cognition 
Charles E. Wright, Charles Chubb, Alissa Winkler, and Hal S. Stern
Chapter 6: On the Nature of Sensory Memory 
Michel Treisman and Martin Lages
Chapter 7: Short-Term Visual Priming Across Eye Movements 
Stephen E. Denton and Richard M. Shiffrin
Part III: Attention
Chapter 8: Strategies of Saccadic Planning 
Eileen Kowler and Misha Pavel
Chapter 9: Mechanisms of Visual Attention 
Barbara A. Dosher and Zhong-Lin Lu
Chapter 10: Cortical Dynamics of Attentive Object Recognition, Scene Understanding, and Decision Making 
Stephen Grossberg
Chapter 11: The Auditory Attention Band 
Adam Reeves
Part IV: Applications
Chapter 12: Perceptual Mechanisms and Learning in Anisometropic Amblyopia 
Zhong-Lin Lu, Chang-Bing Huang, and Yifeng Zhou
Chapter 13: Multimodal Perception and Simulation 
Peter Werkhoven and Jan van Erp
Chapter 14: Projections of a Learning Space 
Jean-Claude Falmagne
Index
About the Editors

Edited by Charles Chubb, Barbara A. Dosher, Zhong-lin Lu, and Richard M. Shiffrin