Discussion of neural-specificity model of selective attention: a response to Hillyard and Mangun and to Näätänen.
Hillyard and Mangun (this issue) and Näätänen (this issue) have made a number of reflective, important observations in regard to the model we described in our earlier paper (Harter & Aine, 1984). The attention they have given to our paper and model is greatly appreciated and has helped us more clearly conceptualize some of the assertions and observations set forth in our original paper. The scholarly contributions of Hillyard, Näätänen, and their colleagues during the last 20 years, along with those by others related to the neurophysiology and neuroanatomy of the visual system, have led us to propose the somewhat different perspective represented by the neural specificity model of selective attention. Hillyard's and Mangun's and then Näätänen comments will be abstracted and discussed in order.
D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D055592:Biophysical Phenomena; D001703:Biophysics; D001931:Brain Mapping; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological / Q000502:physiology; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual; D006801:Humans; D008959:Models, Neurological; D014794:Visual Fields; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*