CR:PI Special Issue

ISSN: 2365-7464
(electronic version)

Published two times a year.
(May, Dec)

Special Issues

Call for Papers
Why Spatial is Special in Education, Learning, and Everyday Activities

Coming soon
Deception Detection

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Embodied Cognition
and STEM Learning

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Individual Differences in
Face Perception and
Person Recognition

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Effects of Neuroscience Explanations

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Attention in Natural and Mediated Realities

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Medical Image Perception

Attention in Natural and
Mediated Realities
Closed for Submissions
The deadline was December 31, 2017.

Co-organizers:
Jeffrey M. Zacks, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Khena M. Swallow, Cornell University, USA
Daniel T. Levin, Vanderbilt University, USA

Modern humans live in natural environments and in worlds shaped and mediated by technology. Both worlds are complex, dynamic, and rich; producing streams of data that vastly outstrip the capacities of human cognitive systems. Yet, people usually understand and intelligently act in everyday situations. How do people use attention to manage environmental demands on human cognitive systems? The purpose of this collection of papers is to examine how attention operates in environments that approach the complexity of naturalistic situations. Papers may be empirical studies, theoretical or tutorial reviews, or new theoretical contributions. Studies using behavioural, neurophysiological, and/or eye-tracking methods would all be appropriate.

Issues of particular interest include: the role of attention in media consumption and education; change blindness and inattentional blindness in naturalistic settings; motivation, reward, and attention; curiosity; predictive looking in event comprehension. (This list is not exclusive.)

If you are interested in submitting a manuscript and would like to discuss the appropriateness of your submission, contact the co-organizers:

Jeffrey M. Zacks, Khena M. Swallow, and Daniel T. Levin

For manuscripts accepted for the special issue, publication fees may be fully or partially waived depending on the number of manuscripts accepted for the Special Issue. The authors should indicate when they submit a manuscript if they are requesting an editorial waiver.

CR:PI is the open access journal of the Psychonomic Society. Its mission is to publish use-inspired basic research: fundamental cognitive research that grows from hypotheses about real-world problems.

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