Shifting the spotlight of attention: evidence for discrete computations in cognition

Our thoughts have a limited bandwidth; we can only fully process a few items in mind simultaneously. To compensate, the brain developed attention, the ability to select information relevant to the current task, while filtering out the rest. Therefore, by understanding the neural mechanisms of attent...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Buschman, Tim, Miller, Earl K.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62593
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1298-2761