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?

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Published inCurrent biology Vol. 14; no. 19; pp. R850 - R852
Main Authors Connor, Charles E., Egeth, Howard E., Yantis, Steven
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published England Elsevier Inc 05.10.2004
Subjects
Attention - physiology
Color Perception
Humans
Models, Psychological
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Time Factors
Visual Fields - physiology
Visual Pathways - physiology
Visual Perception - physiology
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Summary: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?
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ISSN:0960-9822
1879-0445
DOI:10.1016/j.cub.2004.09.041