Part I Evolution and Development -- The Evolution of Gaze Shifting Eye Movements -- Visuospatial integration and hand-tool interaction in cognitive archaeology -- Development of Visual-Spatial Attention -- Variations in the beneficial effects of spatial structure and serial organization on working memory span in humans and other species -- Part II Processes, mechanisms and models -- Biasing allocations of attention via selective weighting of saliency signals: behavioral and neuroimaging evidence for the Dimension-Weighting Account -- Active inference, novelty, and neglect -- Prefrontal contributions to attention and working memory -- Functions of memory across saccadic eye movements -- What is memory-guided attention? How past experiences shape selective visuospatial attention in the present -- Superstitious perception in humans and neural networks -- Dynamic Protention: the architecture of real-time cognition for future events -- Recent studies on the relationship between covert visuo-spatial attention, visual search and saccadic eye movements -- Functional imaging of visuo-spatial attention in complex and naturalistic conditions -- Part III Neuropsychology and Neuropsychiatry -- Visuo-spatial attention and working memory in progressive supra-nuclear palsy -- Attention and working memory in Alzheimers and Parkinsons disease -- Mechanisms underlying visuospatial working memory impairments in schizophrenia -- Dopamine and working memory: The impact of genetic variation, stress and implications for mental health -- Eye movements in neuropsychological tasks.

This volume covers a broad range of current research topics addressing the function of visuospatial attention and working memory. It discusses a variety of perspectives ranging from evolutionary and genetic underpinnings to neural substrates/computational processes and the connection between attention and working memory. Contributions address the topic at the molecular, system and evolutionary scales and will be of interest to a range of audiences from animal behaviour specialists, experimental psychologists to clinicians in the field of psychiatry and neurology.