| Chapter 4: Attention Besner and Stolz (1999): Stroop effect disappears when focus attention on one letter => Filter notion of spatial attention to keep distractors out of information processing system Gradient notion of spatial attention: efficiency of processing and spread of attention are negatively correlated The filter and gradient notions of spatial attention are important for processing complex objects Treisman and Gelade's (1980) perceptual glue The filter and gradient notions of spatial attention are not applicable to simple judgments. |
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