The present review of visual attentional processes and aging focuses on definitions of attention that emphasize some aspect of the control of information processing (selective attention) or the processing resources needed to drive these control processes (attentional capacity). Emphasis is placed on how increased adult age affects attentional mechanisms and how these age differences in attentio...

Active vision is the skill that allows to control vision sensors and to filter visual signals in order to response to particular tasks and external stimuli in a fast and effective way. In biological and artificial systems it enables faster processing and reacting, providing meaningful information for subsequent activities such as navigation, manipulation, movements planning, interaction with th...

Older adults are often slower and less accurate than are younger adults in performing visual-search tasks, suggesting an age-related decline in attentional functioning. Age-related decline in attention, however, is not entirely pervasive. Visual search that is based on the observer's expectations (i.e., top-down attention) is relatively preserved as a function of adult age. Neuroimaging researc...

Quantitative modeling of psychological data is both technically and mathematically challenging. The present article introduces a user friendly and flexible program package that enables quantitative fits of Bundesen's (1990) theory of visual attention to behavioral data from whole and partial report experiments. The program package is based on new computational formulas that are more general tha...

Inspired by recent work in machine translation and object detection, we introduce an attentionbased model that automatically learns to extract information from an image by adaptively assigning its capacity across different portions of the input data and only processing the selected regions of different sizes at high resolution. This is achieved by combining two modules: an attention sub-network...

In the domain of naval warfare, it is crucial for the crew of the vessels involved to be aware of the situation in the field. Examples of important questions that should be addressed continuously are “in which direction are we heading?”, “are we currently under attack?”, “are there any friendly vessels around?”, and so on. To assess such issues, one of the crew members is usually assigned the T...