Egeth and Steven Yantis. Visual attention: Control, Representation, and Time Course
Howard E.
Howard E. Egeth and Steven Yantis
Department of Psychology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, 1997. - 29 p.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 stimulus-driven) processes. The second concerns the representational
basis for visual selection, including how much attention can be said
to be location- or object-based. Finally, we consider the time course of attention
as it is directed to one stimulus after another.
KEY WORDS: attention, cognition, human subjects, perception, psychophysics, reaction time,
vision, visual search.
Department of Psychology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, 1997. - 29 p.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 stimulus-driven) processes. The second concerns the representational
basis for visual selection, including how much attention can be said
to be location- or object-based. Finally, we consider the time course of attention
as it is directed to one stimulus after another.
KEY WORDS: attention, cognition, human subjects, perception, psychophysics, reaction time,
vision, visual search.