There are so many great quotes about memory that it is very hard to choose just one to illustrate its place in the human condition. But it seems poignant to begin with Marquez, who, although now suffering from advanced dementia and with little memory left of his own life, has so much to say about memory in his wonderful books (Jacobs, 2012). Given our enduring fascination with memory, it is not...

A preliminary experimental study is presented, that aims at eliciting the contribution of oral messages to facilitating visual search tasks on crowded visual displays. Results of quantitative and qualitative analyses suggest that appropriate verbal messages can improve both target selection time and accuracy. In particular, multimodal messages including a visual presentation of the isolated tar...

Profile Suzanne Cory: from a table to the top Matthijs J. Smith Suzanne Cory has recently been appointed to the directorship of Australia's premier biomedical research facility, the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute in Melbourne where, together with her husband Jerry Adams, she has headed the Molecular Biology Unit for the past 24 years. Their introduction of molecular biology into an environment...