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Continuing work on the three-systems-theory of visual motion perception: (I) Isoluminant chromatic motion is perceived by and only by the third-order motion system. (2) New illusion. Cancelling salience modulation in the third-order motion system causes brightly colored moving red-green gratings to appear to be motionless (motion standstill illusion) that gives considerable insight into the mechanisms of object perception. (3) A prediction that motion could be used to provide amplification of apparent contrast was verified, with amplifications 5x. (4) Amplification procedures were used to construct purified stimuli to stimulate each motion system individually, and (5) to measure the amplification produced by selective attention to a feature. (6) Developed computational models oi attentional amplification of features and of the movement dynamics of spatial attention. The spatial attentional mode was investigated with a new paradigm (gating spatial attention) to enable measurements of iconic memory uncontaminated by attention dynamics and to demonstrate that a new attention window' open concurrently at all points within the window. (7) The spatial attention model predicts 90% of the variance in a huge data set (approximately 500 points per observer from 20,000 trials) and encompasses the major attention paradigms. (All items plus more are fully described in publications.)