Efficient tuning of attention to narrow and broad ranges of task-relevant feature values.
Feature-based attention is the ability to select relevant information based on visual features, such as a particular colour or motion direction. In contrast to spatial attention, where the attentional focus has been shown to be flexibly adjustable to select small or large regions in space, it is unc...
| Publicado en: | Visual Cognition Vol. 31; no. 1; pp. 63 - 85 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jan2023
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