Visual attention: controlling what we see and do.
Controlling what we see and do in complex environments depends upon the interaction of top-down control mechanisms located in the prefrontal cortex, on the one hand, and bottom-up competition between objects for limited perceptual resources in posterior cortical areas, on the other.
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MRC Applied Psychology Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge, CB2 2EF, UK.
D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*