Much of the research in visual attention has been driven by the spotlight metaphor. This
metaphor has been useful over many years for generating experimental questions in …

A large part of the empirical research in the field of visual attention has focused on various
concrete paradigms. However, as yet, there has been no clear demonstration of whether or …

Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on the acts of visual attention, as attention is a
thriving area of vision research. This chapter reviews a substantial portion of the literature …

A typical visual scene we encounter in everyday life is complex and filled with a huge
amount of perceptual information. The term,'visual attention'describes a set of mechanisms …

▪ Abstract Three central problems in the recent literature on visual attention are reviewed.
The first concerns the control of attention by top-down (or goal-directed) and bottom-up (or …

Recently the signal-suppression account was proposed, positing that salient stimuli
automatically produce a bottom-up salience signal that can be suppressed via top-down …

Although in traditional attention research the focus of visual spatial attention has been
considered as indivisible, many studies in the last 15 years have claimed the contrary …

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In this paper, we propose that the debate concerning the locus of attentional selection can
be resolved by specifying the conditions under which early selection is possible. In the first …

The nature of attention is one of the oldest and most central problems in psychology. A huge
amount of research has been produced on this subject in the last half century, especially on …