Attention based visual processes

From: Canadian Psychology | Date: February 1, 1996| Author: | Copyright information

Attention is often compared to a spotlight or focus of enhanced processing. We have found that this gain comes with certain unexpected costs. Specifically, judgements of positions of stimuli surrounding an attended event are distorted, repelled away from the attentional focus. But there is more to attention than just selection. Our work shows that it is better characterized as an image which keeps track of attended objects. We find that the resolution or grain of attention -- the finest packing of targets which still allows an individual item to be identified and tracked -- is much ...

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