James R. Brockmole is a Reader in the Department of Psychology at the University of Edinburgh. His research focuses on understanding how human observers acquire information about objects and scenes in real time, how that information is retained in memory, and how stored knowledge about the visual world in turn guides behavior.
[The Visual World in Memory] offers a focused collection of first-class reviews and will be a valued repository for scientists fascinated with the visual world in memory. - Ulrich K. H. Ecker, University of Western Australia, in Perception This book manages to present the most up to date research available in one single resource, something which has unfortunately been lacking in the visual cognition literature to date. - Helen Henshaw in The Psychologist The Visual World in Memory will be of interest to scientific cognitive psychology researchers for its ingenious methodologies and to researchers who want an overview of reasonably current work. - William A. Adams, in PsycCRITIQUES The Visual World in Memory offers both cognitive scientists and the interested lay-person an enjoyable stroll through the latest thinking on how we perceive the visual world. Brockmole has gathered some of the world's leading experts as tour guides. They provide a highly integrated and comprehensive update of current theory in visual cognition, including topics as wide-ranging as face recognition, scene analysis, and eyewitness memories. - Michael Tarr, Brown University