Can attention be confined to just part of a moving object? Revisiting target-distractor merging in multiple object tracking.

While it was initially thought that attention was space-based, more recent work has shown that attention can also be object-based, in that observers find it easier to attend to different parts of the same object than to different parts of different objects. Such studies have shown that attention mor...

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Main Authors: Piers D Howe, Natalie C Incledon, Daniel R Little
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3408494?pdf=render