title: Neural evidence for sequential selection of object features.
abstract: Behavioral and neural evidence suggests that attention selects entire objects, amplifying all of their features regardless of task relevance. A new magnetoencephalography (MEG) study by Schoenfeld et al. elucidates the time course of this selection, showing that object features are activated sequentially, with attention spreading from task-relevant to task-irrelevant modules.
authors.affiliation: Baruch College and Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.
authors.forename: Tatiana Aloi
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Emmanouil
authors.affiliation: School of Occupational Therapy, Faculty of Medicine, Hadassah and The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. Electronic address: msmagen@mscc.huji.ac.il.
authors.forename: Hagit
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Magen
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015225:Magnetoencephalography / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*