title: Visual attention: control, representation, and time course.
abstract: Three central problems in the recent literature on visual attention are reviewed. The first concerns the control of attention by top-down (or goal-directed) and bottom-up (or stimulus-driven) processes. The second concerns the representational basis for visual selection, including how much attention can be said to be location- or object-based. Finally, we consider the time course of attention as it is directed to one stimulus after another.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
authors.forename: H E
authors.initials: HE
authors.lastname: Egeth
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yantis
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D004193:Discrimination Learning; D006801:Humans; D009949:Orientation; D011930:Reaction Time; D014796:Visual Perception