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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Dear Colleagues,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Joy Geng, Andrew Leber, and I are pleased to present a special issue of <b>Current Opinion in Psychology: Attention and Perception</b>, which covers some of the newest and most exciting developments in the field. Although studies of attention were amongst the earliest experimental investigations focused on uncovering psychological mechanisms, the field has expanded considerably over the decades. This expansion reflects the many ways in which the mechanisms of attention are central to perception and cognition. However, it has been a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it speaks to the rich contribution of attentional mechanisms in information processing. On the other hand, it has led to a state in which the word “attention” has come to mean different things to different subfields. In this special issue, we present 40 articles that illustrate the breadth of research in which attention is thought to play a critical role.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">We approached this issue with two major purposes. First, for those who are new to the study of attention, this issue will introduce recent approaches to studying this central cognitive function that showcase the sophisticated convergent methodologies used for this line of inquiry. Second, for those who are expert in this field, the breadth of articles in this issue will offer new, interesting, and provocative ideas for future research. Below we describe clusters of these reviews and highlight the original bedrock topics in attention from which they developed. We believe that these reviews reflect the extent of methodological practices and current state of the art for various attentional mechanisms and as such serves as a catalogue for the scope of attentional processing. [<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X19301587?dgcid=author">Read more of the editorial</a>].</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Full list of the 40 articles can be <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/current-opinion-in-psychology/vol/29/suppl/C?dgcid=raven_sd_via_email">accessed here</a>. Also, below is a full list of publications:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Thomas Parr and Karl J Friston. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301593">Attention or salience?</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Ian Krajbich. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301866">Accounting for attention in sequential sampling models of decision making</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Nicholas Gaspelin and Steven J Luck. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301775">Inhibition as a potential resolution to the attentional capture debate</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Jeremy M Wolfe and Igor S Utochkin. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301799">What is a preattentive feature?</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Brian A Anderson. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X1830174X">Neurobiology of value-driven attention</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Joshua J Foster and Edward Awh. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301684">The role of alpha oscillations in spatial attention: limited evidence for a suppression account</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Paresh A. Malhotra. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X1830160X">Impairments of attention in Alzheimer’s disease</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">JD Knotts, Brian Odegaard, Hakwan Lau and David Rosenthal. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301702">Subjective inflation: phenomenology’s get-rich-quick scheme</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Marisa Carrasco and Antoine Barbot. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X1830191X">Spatial attention alters visual appearance</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Yuhong V Jiang and Caitlin A Sisk. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301738">Habit-like attention</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Árni Kristjánsson and Árni Gunnar Ásgeirsson. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X1830188X">Attentional priming: recent insights and current controversies</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Yaffa Yeshurun. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301660">The spatial distribution of attention</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Randolph F Helfrich, Assaf Breska and Robert T Knight. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301611">Neural entrainment and network resonance in support of top-down guided attention</a> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Paolo Bartolomeo and Tal Seidel Malkinson. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18302392">Hemispheric lateralization of attention processes in the human brain</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Jan Theeuwes. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301970">Goal-driven, stimulus-driven, and history-driven selection</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Martin Sarter and Cindy Lustig. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301623">Cholinergic double duty: cue detection and attentional control</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">James W Bisley and Koorosh Mirpour. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301647">The neural instantiation of a priority map</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Michelle R Kramer, Courtney L Porfido and Stephen R Mitroff. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301842">Evaluation of strategies to train visual search performance in professional populations</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Joy J Geng and Phillip Witkowski. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301994">Template-to-distractor distinctiveness regulates visual search efficiency</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Donatas Jonikaitis and Tirin Moore. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301957">The interdependence of attention, working memory and gaze control: behavior and neural circuitry</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Leonardo Chelazzi, Francesco Marini, David Pascucci, and Massimo Turatto. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301854">Getting rid of visual distractors: the why, when, how, and where</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Jie Sui and Pia Rotshtein. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301982">Self-prioritization and the attentional systems</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Sarah Shomstein, George L Malcolm and Joseph C Nah. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301763">Intrusive effects of task-irrelevant information on visual selective attention: semantics and size</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Heinrich René Liesefeld and Hermann J Müller. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301921">Distractor handling via dimension weighting</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Adrien Chopin, Benoit Bediou and Daphne Bavelier. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18302331">Altering perception: the case of action video gaming</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Michael Esterman and David Rothlein. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18302264">Models of sustained attention</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Nuttida Rungratsameetaweemana and John T Serences. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301751">Dissociating the impact of attention and expectation on early sensory processing</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Taosheng Liu. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301659">Feature-based attention: effects and control</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Viola S Störmer. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301696">Orienting spatial attention to sounds enhances visual processing</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Preeti Verghese, Suzanne P McKee and Dennis M Levi. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18302689">Attention deficits in Amblyopia</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Melissa Le-Hoa Võ, Sage EP Boettcher and Dejan Draschkow. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18302574">Reading scenes: how scene grammar guides attention and aids perception in real-world environments</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Julie D. Golomb. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301672">Remapping locations and features across saccades: a dual-spotlight theory of attentional updating</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Na Yeon Kim and Sabine Kastner. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301726">A biased competition theory for the developmental cognitive neuroscience of visuo-spatial attention.</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Rosanne M. Van Diepen, John J Foxe and Ali Mazaheri. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X1830229X">The functional role of alpha-band activity in attentional processing: the current zeitgeist and future outlook</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">James A Brissenden and David C Somers. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301635">Cortico–cerebellar networks for visual attention and working memory</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Anna V Fisher. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18302240">Selective sustained attention: a developmental foundation for cognition</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Nir Shalev, Anna-Katharina R Bauer and Anna C Nobre. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18302379">The tempos of performance</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Joo-Hyun Song. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X18301829">The role of attention in motor control and learning</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Anne C Mennen, Kenneth A Norman and Nicholas B Turk-Browne. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X19300016">Attentional bias in depression: understanding mechanisms to improve training and treatment</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Andrew B Leber and Jessica L Irons. </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352250X19301162">A methodological toolbox for investigating attentional strategy</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Best,</p><p class="MsoNormal">Joy, Andy, and Sarah</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">--</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Sarah Shomstein, Ph.D.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Thelma Hunt Professor and Chair</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">George Washington University</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="http://home.gwu.edu/~shom/ACL/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times",serif;color:#0563c1">http://home.gwu.edu/~shom/ACL/</span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Phone: (202) 994-5957</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p></div></body></html>