Visual attention: bottom-up versus top-down.
Visual attention is attracted by salient stimuli that 'pop out' from their surroundings. Attention can also be voluntarily directed to objects of current importance to the observer. What happens in the brain when these two processes interact?
Department of Neuroscience and Krieger Mind/Brain Institute, Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA. connor@jhu.edu
Charles E
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Connor
Howard E
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Egeth
Steven
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Yantis
D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D003118:Color Perception; D006801:Humans; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D013997:Time Factors; D014794:Visual Fields / Q000502:physiology; D014795:Visual Pathways / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*