Distributed and focused attention: neuropsychological evidence for separate attentional mechanisms when counting and estimating.

Evidence is presented for 2 modes of attention operating in simultanagnosia. The authors examined visual enumeration in a patient, GK, who has severe impairments in serially scanning across a scene and is unable to count the numbers of items in visual displays. However, GK's ability to judge th...

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Main Authors: Demeyere, N, Humphreys, G
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2007