As the Theory of Visual Attention (TVA) continues to provide a rigorous, quantitative framework for understanding attentional processes, the future of its applications in psychology remains a pivotal area of exploration. This symposium – part of a double symposium on the future of TVA – assembles a series of talks that focus on new and important questions concerning the network of processes that TVA addresses. As a start, Schneider and Poth revisit one of TVA’s core mechanisms, filtering and “pigeonholing” of incoming visual information, reconceptualizing it for the future. Shalev discusses TVA processes within the network of other cognitive mechanisms. He examines how recent and long-term experiences with object locations, identities, reward value, and timing interact with attentional resource allocation. Starting from the observation that TVA does not account for a range of phenomena related to awareness Sørensen closes thus gap by exploring template tuning as a basis for conscious perception and thus oYering a TVA-based perspective on the relationship between attention and awareness. Finke focuses on the area of aging by discussing TVA-based assessments and interventions in aging, focusing on TVA’s future role in clinical research and on how TVA might help development of an integrative framework for understanding neurocognitive changes related with aging and developing strategies to preserve cognitive health in an ageing population.