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A Competitive Interaction Theory of Attentional Selection and Decision Making in Brief, Multielement Displays.

We generalize the integrated system model of Smith and Ratcliff (2009) to obtain a new theory of attentional selection in brief, multielement visual displays. The theory proposes that attentional selection occurs via competitive interactions among detectors that signal the presence of task-relevant...

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Published in:Psychological Review Vol. 120; no. 3; pp. 589 - 628
Main Authors: Smith, Philip L., Sewell, David K.
Format: Article
Published: American Psychological Association Jul2013
Subjects:
Competition (Psychology)
Attention
Decision making
Spatial behavior
Visual learning
Short-term memory
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