Visual attention: bringing the unseen past into view.
Attention facilitates perception and can bring stimuli too faint to see into consciousness. A new study shows that attention can reach into the past, acting on the memory trace of a stimulus that has disappeared before being attended.
Department of Psychology, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK. robert.kentridge@durham.ac.uk
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