The Influence of Attention, Learning, and Motivation on Visual Search brings together a number of exciting lines of inquiry into this topic. In keeping with the near-limitless set of variables that influence search, contributors represent scholarship in laboratory and applied settings, cognitive processes intimately involved in search, and related concepts from a variety of disciplines. Chapters delve into current studies on a wide range of component factors relating to search, including:

.             Searching in space and time.

.             Automatic control of visual selection.

.             Guidance of visual search by memory and knowledge.

.             Reward and attentional control in visual search.

.             Statistical learning and its consequences.

.             Overcoming hurdles in translating visual data between the lab and the field.

.             The search termination problem in visual search.

For cognitive and social psychologists, The Influence of Attention, Learning, and Motivation on Visual Search is a stimulating volume that holds multiple possibilities for future developments across a number of behavioral and cognitive domains, from decision-making to problem-solving, from autism and other cognitive deficits to the effects of aging.