“Top-down” Does Not Mean “Voluntary”

Attention researchers have long debated the roles of top-down and bottom-up mechanisms in controlling attention. Theeuwes (2018) has argued that that top-down control is much less common than typically assumed and that a third mechanism—selection history—plays an underappreciated role in guiding vis...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Nicholas Gaspelin, Steven J. Luck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2018-05-01
Series:Journal of Cognition
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Online Access:https://www.journalofcognition.org/articles/28