PROCESSES OF VISUOSPATIAL ATTENTION AND WORKING MEMORY

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.

This volume covers a broad range of current research topics addressing the function of visuospatial attention and working memory. It discusses a variety of perspectives ranging from evolutionary and genetic underpinnings to neural substrates/computational processes and the connection between attention and working memory. Contributions address the topic at the molecular, system and evolutionary scales and will be of interest to a range of audiences from animal behaviour specialists, experimental psychologists to clinicians in the field of psychiatry and neurology.

Features
• 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