The architecture of object-based attention

P Cavanagh, GP Caplovitz, TK Lytchenko… - Psychonomic Bulletin & …, 2023 - Springer
The allocation of attention to objects raises several intriguing questions: What are objects,
how does attention access them, what anatomical regions are involved? Here, we review …

SOAP opera: Self as object and agent in prioritizing attention

G Truong, RM Todd - Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2017 - direct.mit.edu
A growing body of evidence has demonstrated that multiple sources of salience tune
attentional sets toward aspects of the environment, including affectively and motivationally …

Visual attention modulates reading acquisition

S Valdois, JL Roulin, ML Bosse - Vision research, 2019 - Elsevier
The processing of letters within strings is challenging for beginning readers. Letter
identification is affected by visual similarity, loss of information with eccentricity and …

Statistically defined visual chunks engage object-based attention

G Lengyel, M Nagy, J Fiser - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Although objects are the fundamental units of our representation interpreting the
environment around us, it is still not clear how we handle and organize the incoming …

Attention can operate on object representations in visual sensory memory

T Xie, W Nan, S Fu - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2021 - Springer
Numerous studies have shown that attention can be allocated to various types of objects,
such as low-level objects developed by perceptual organization and high-level objects …

Reinforcement learning of linking and tracing contours in recurrent neural networks

T Brosch, H Neumann… - PLoS computational …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The processing of a visual stimulus can be subdivided into a number of stages. Upon
stimulus presentation there is an early phase of feedforward processing where the visual …

Task-irrelevant semantic relationship between objects and scene influence attentional allocation

JC Nah, GL Malcolm, S Shomstein - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Recent behavioral evidence suggests that the semantic relationships between isolated
objects can influence attentional allocation, with highly semantically related objects showing …

The relationship between sitting and the use of symmetry as a cue to figure-ground assignment in 6.5-month-old infants

S Ross-Sheehy, S Perone, SP Vecera… - Frontiers in …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Two experiments examined the relationship between emerging sitting ability and sensitivity
to symmetry as a cue to figure-ground (FG) assignment in 6.5-month-old infants (N= 80). In …

Statistical learning of parts and wholes: A neural network approach.

DC Plaut, AK Vande Velde - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Statistical learning is often considered to be a means of discovering the units of perception,
such as words and objects, and representing them as explicit “chunks.” However, entities …

Object representations are biased toward each other through statistical learning

RQ Yu, J Zhao - Visual Cognition, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The visual system is remarkably efficient at extracting regularities from the environment
through statistical learning. While such extraction has extensive consequences on cognition …