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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Hauptverfasser: Buschman, Tim, Miller, Earl K.
Weitere Verfasser: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Artikel
Sprache:en_US
Veröffentlicht: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011
Online Zugang:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62593
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1298-2761