Visual Attention: Control, Representation, and Time Course

Howard E. Egeth; Steven Yantis

doi:10.1146/annurev.psych.48.1.269

Visual Attention: Control, Representation, and Time Course

Howard E. Egeth
, Steven Yantis

Krieger School of Arts and Sciences

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	269-297
Number of pages	29
Journal	Annual review of psychology
Volume	48
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.48.1.269
State	Published - 1997

Keywords

Attention
Cognition
Human subjects
Perception
Psychophysics
Reaction time
Vision
Visual search

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General Psychology

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