title: Cumulative progress in formal theories of attention.
abstract: Formal theories of attention based on similarity-choice theory and signal-detection theory are reviewed to document cumulative progress in theoretical understanding of attention from the 1950s to the present. Theories based on these models have been developed to account for a wide variety of attentional phenomena, including attention to dimensions, attention to objects, and executive control. The review describes the classical similarity-choice and signal-detection theories and relates them to current theories of categorization, Garner tasks, visual search, cuing procedures, task switching, and strategy choice.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, 37203, USA. gordon.logan@vanderbilt.edu
authors.forename: Gordon D
authors.initials: GD
authors.lastname: Logan
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D002755:Choice Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D011582:Psychological Theory; D017603:Signal Detection, Psychological