Object individuation is invariant to attentional diffusion: Changes in the size of the attended region do not interact with object-substitution masking

• Published in: Cognition Vol. 157; pp. 358 - 364
• Main Authors: Goodhew, Stephanie C., Edwards, Mark
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.12.2016; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Adult; Attention; Attentional spotlight size; Brain; Female; Humans; Identity formation; Information processing; Male; Manipulation; Masking; Object individuation; Object perception; Object-substitution masking; Pattern recognition; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Perceptions; Perceptual Masking; Visual attention; Visual perception; Visual span; Young Adult; Object individuation; Visual span; Attentional spotlight size; Object-substitution masking; Visual attention; Object perception
• ISSN: 0010-0277; 1873-7838
• DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.10.006

When the human brain is confronted with complex and dynamic visual scenes, two pivotal processes are at play: visual attention (the process of selecting certain aspects of the scene for privileged processing) and object individuation (determining what information belongs to a continuing object over...