Visual attention

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(no more than 3)
Name/Email/AffiliationBrief note
Dr. John K. Tsotsos (edit)
(tsotsosATcs.yorku.ca)
Centre for Vision Research and Department of Computer Science and Engineering, York University, Canada
The candidate has more than 100 articles published in scientific journals and top tier conferences, the majority on the subject of visual attention. Having knowledge of computational, psychophysical and neurophysiological aspects of the subject matter, this candidate would be ideal to author the subject matter in question.
Anne Treisman (edit)
(TreismanATprinceton.edu)
Princeton University
Anne Treisman has been at the forefront of visual attention research for over 45 years. She has been a major leader in theoretical and empirical developments in this area. Her work on visual search is among the most-cited work in the entire field of cognitive psychology.
Howard Egeth (edit)
(egethATjhu.edu)
Johns Hopkins
Howard Egeth has been making important contributions to the attention literature for years. He has a broad and deep knowledge of the field.
Hal Pashler (edit)
(pashlerATcogsci.ucsd.edu)
UC San Diego
Hal, quite literally, wrote the book on the subject. His single-author volume on visual attention was a real intellectual tour-de-force of review and synthesis of the attention literature
Prof. Stefan Treue (edit)
(treueATgwdg.de)
German Primate Center
Electrophysiology of Visual Attention and Visual Motion Processing


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