Humans can efficiently look for but not select multiple visual objects

The human brain recurrently prioritizes task-relevant over task-irrelevant visual information. A central question is whether multiple objects can be prioritized simultaneously. To answer this, we let observers search for two colored targets among distractors. Crucially, we independently varied the n...

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Main Authors: Eduard Ort, Johannes Jacobus Fahrenfort, Tuomas ten Cate, Martin Eimer, Christian NL Olivers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2019-08-01
Series:eLife
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Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/49130