Dr Christina Howard is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Nottingham Trent University Department of Psychology where she has held a faculty position since 2011. Prior to this, Christina completed post doctoral positions at the Universities of Birmingham, Sydney and Bristol and a PhD at Cardiff University in the area of visual cognition. Christina has Masters degrees from the University of Surrey and from Exeter College, Oxford University. Christina regularly publishes her own research in international peer reviewed journals such as Cerebral Cortex, Experimental Brain Research, Vision Research and Journal of Vision.

• PrefaceChristina J. Howard1. Oculomotor measures reveal the temporal dynamics of preparing for searchKatya Olmos-Solis, Anouk M. van Loon, Sander A. Los and Christian N.L. Olivers2. Attention in action and perception: Unitary or separate mechanisms of selectivity?James T. Enns, Allison A. Brennan and Robert L. Whitwell3. Perceptual episodes, temporal attention, and the role of cognitive control: Lessons from the attentional blinkGuy Snir and Yaffa Yeshurun4. Accumulating visual information for actionEli Brenner and Jeroen B.J. Smeets5. Learning features in complex and changing environment: A distribution-based framework for visual attention and vision in generalAndrey Chetverikov, Gianluca Campana and  Árni Kristjánsson6. Fundamental computational constraints on the time course of perception and actionShimon Edelman and Roy Moyal7. Selecting multiple features delays perception, but only when targets are horizontally arrangedShih-Yu Lo8. The maintenance and updating of representations of no longer visible objects and their partsJ.D. McCarthy, Gennady Erlikhman and Gideon P. Caplovitz9. Choosing the speed of dynamic mental simulationsAlexis D.J. Makin10. Behavioral oscillation in face priming: Prediction about face identity is updated at a theta-band rhythmYuanye Wang and Huan Luo11. Incorporation of prosthetic limbs into the body representation of amputees: Evidence from the crossed hands temporal order illusionYuki Sato, Toshihiro Kawase, Kouji Takano, Charles Spence and Kenji Kansaku12. Synchronizing the tracking eye movements with the motion of a visual target: Basic neural processesL. Goffart, C. Bourrelly and J. Quinet13. The importance of timing, at the cortical level, in object representation updating to predict changes in the environmentNaomi du Bois and Mark A. Elliott14. Effect of emotions on temporal attentionMaruti V. Mishra, Sonia B. Ray and Narayanan Srinivasan