{"pk":49138,"title":"New Perspectives in Computational Modeling of Human Attention","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This symposium will present a set of four talks and a panel discussion that will together take the audience inside a scientific revolution that has been (largely quietly) unfolding in the field of attention: A set of recent computational modeling approaches that allow us to think about human attention in fundamentally new ways. \n\nIn cognitive science, studies of attention stand out in at least two dimensions. First, and most bluntly, it is an outright confusing area to work in. \"Attention\" is a term ascribed to many sorts of mechanisms and phenomena. Case in point: there are at least three papers all published in 2024 presenting ongoing active (and, surprisingly, topically, largely non-overlapping) debates: Rosenholtz (2024), Theeuwes (2024), and Wu (2024). \n  \nSecond, attention stands out in the extent of the gap between the rich empirical phenomena integrated into conceptual theories, versus formal computational models, with most influential models dating back at least a decade (e.g., Bruce & Tsotsos, 2005; Bundesen et al., 2015; Reynolds & Heeger, 2009; Wolfe, Cave, & Franzel, 1994; Dosher & Lu, 2000), rather than keeping up with the advances in experimental work.\n  \nThis 90-minute-long gathering will show how the field of attention has been radically changing along both dimensions --- how models of attention have been carving new and productive ways of better drawing the contours of what attention is and enabling progress toward a more integrated research landscape of experiments and modeling.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Symposia","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1x58f4zq","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Ilker","middle_name":"","last_name":"Yildirim","name_suffix":"","institution":"Yale University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49138/galley/37099/download/"},{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/49138/galley/38644/download/"}]}