Processes of Visuospatial Attention and Working Memory

Wide range of perspectives from evolutionary, developmental and genetic influences to functional neuroimaging and neuropsychological studies of patients. Contributions cover attention (eye movements) as well as the link between attention and working memory.

A strong clinical/neuropsychological emphasis together with papers focussed on neurophysiological and computational mechanisms.

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Part I Evolution and Development.- The Evolution of Gaze Shifting Eye Movements.- Visuospatial integration and hand-tool interaction in cognitive archaeology.- Development of Visual-Spatial Attention.- Variations in the beneficial effects of spatial structure and serial organization on working memory span in humans and other species.- Part II Processes, mechanisms and models.- Biasing allocations of attention via selective weighting of saliency signals: behavioral and neuroimaging evidence for the Dimension-Weighting Account.- Active inference, novelty, and neglect.- Prefrontal contributions to attention and working memory.- Functions of memory across saccadic eye movements.- What is memory-guided attention? How past experiences shape selective visuospatial attention in the present.- Superstitious perception in humans and neural networks.- Dynamic Protention: the architecture of real-time cognition for future events.- Recent studies on the relationship between covert visuo-spatial attention, visual search and saccadic eye movements.- Functional imaging of visuo-spatial attention in complex and naturalistic conditions.- Part III Neuropsychology and Neuropsychiatry.- Visuo-spatial attention and working memory in progressive supra-nuclear palsy.- Attention and working memory in Alzheimers and Parkinsons disease.- Mechanisms underlying visuospatial working memory impairments in schizophrenia.- Dopamine and working memory: The impact of genetic variation, stress and implications for mental health.- Eye movements in neuropsychological tasks.