Attentional selection of levels within hierarchically organized figures is mediated by object-files

Objects frequently have a hierarchical organization (tree-branch-leaf). How do we select the level to be attended? This has been explored with compound letters: a global letter built from local letters. One explanation, backed by much empirical support, is that attentional competition is biased towa...

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Main Authors: Mitchell Joseph Valdes-Sosa, Jorge eIglesias-Fuster, Rosario eTorres
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnint.2014.00091/full