Comment on Theeuwes’s Characterization of Visual Selection
Theeuwes (2018, this issue) argues that the classic dichotomy describing the factors that guide attention (bottom-up and top-down) is inadequate and should be replaced by a trichotomy (bottom-up, top-down, and selection history). In contrast, I argue that top-down is a broad category that comfortabl...
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| description | Theeuwes (2018, this issue) argues that the classic dichotomy describing the factors that guide attention (bottom-up and top-down) is inadequate and should be replaced by a trichotomy (bottom-up, top-down, and selection history). In contrast, I argue that top-down is a broad category that comfortably includes selection history. While one can certainly choose to subdivide broad categories, there is no obvious stopping point for such an endeavor; how long can it be before this trichotomy turns into a “quadchotomy”? |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4aa8cdb3cd924bd8915ed45aa629ad152022-12-21T18:39:23ZengUbiquity PressJournal of Cognition2514-48202018-05-011110.5334/joc.2928Comment on Theeuwes’s Characterization of Visual SelectionHoward Egeth0Johns Hopkins UniversityTheeuwes (2018, this issue) argues that the classic dichotomy describing the factors that guide attention (bottom-up and top-down) is inadequate and should be replaced by a trichotomy (bottom-up, top-down, and selection history). In contrast, I argue that top-down is a broad category that comfortably includes selection history. While one can certainly choose to subdivide broad categories, there is no obvious stopping point for such an endeavor; how long can it be before this trichotomy turns into a “quadchotomy”?https://www.journalofcognition.org/articles/29AttentionCaptureVisual search |
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| title | Comment on Theeuwes’s Characterization of Visual Selection |
| title_full | Comment on Theeuwes’s Characterization of Visual Selection |
| title_fullStr | Comment on Theeuwes’s Characterization of Visual Selection |
| title_full_unstemmed | Comment on Theeuwes’s Characterization of Visual Selection |
| title_short | Comment on Theeuwes’s Characterization of Visual Selection |
| title_sort | comment on theeuwes s characterization of visual selection |
| topic | Attention Capture Visual search |
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