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Visual attention: control, representation, and time course.

H E Egeth·S Yantis
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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.

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H E Egeth, S Yantis. 1997. Visual attention: control, representation, and time course.. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.48.1.269

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