[vslist] Special Feature of Spatial Vision: Visual Search

[Elizabeth Davis]

CALL FOR SUBMISIONS TO A SPECIAL ISSUE OF SPATIAL VISION

VISUAL SEARCH:  SEARCHING FOR THE ROLE OF ATTENTION


Guest Editors

Elizabeth T. Davis and John Palmer


Visual search depends on sensory, perceptual, and cognitive processes. 
As a result, the search paradigm has been used to investigate a
particularly diverse range of phenomena.  The nature of the search task
can place demands upon attention.  In turn, attention modulates visual
search by selecting and limiting what information is processed. Deriving
a meaningful understanding of the role of attention in visual search
depends on obtaining evidence provided by a variety of approaches.  We
invite studies from different disciplines, including psychophysical,
cognitive, neurophysiological, neuroimaging, and computational. 
Theoretical, empirical and applied studies are all welcome.  Studies the
cut across more than one discipline or that compare data and theory are
especially welcome.

Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:

Psychophysical models of search and attention
Using eye movements to assess covert and overt attention
Neuroimaging and behavioral studies of visual search and attention
Influence of context on visual attention strategies in search
Pre-attentive and attentive mechanisms in visual search
Perceptual and cognitive attentional limits of visual search
Mechanisms of object-based or space-based attention in search
Effects of aging on mechanisms of visual search and attention
Applications of theories of search and attention to applied problems 

Please send your manuscript directly to Beth Davis for this special
feature issue on visual search.  Electronic submissions, either in Word
or in PDF format, are highly preferred although submission of a
hard-copy paper is acceptable.  If a hard-copy manuscript is submitted,
please notify Beth Davis by email that the manuscript has been sent. 
See SPATIAL VISION for instructions on the format of submitted
manuscripts.  Post-deadline papers may be considered, but if they are
accepted, they may appear in later issues of Spatial Vision.

Deadline for submission is June 1, 2003.

Beth Davis						       John Palmer
Psychology 0170					       Psychology, Box 351525
Georgia Institute of Technology			  University of Washington
Atlanta, GA 30332-0170				 Seattle, WA 98195-1525
U.S.A.						       U.S.A.
etdavis6@earthlink.net				 jpalmer@u.washington.edu