Action–based mechanisms of attention

• Published in: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B. Biological sciences Vol. 353; no. 1373; pp. 1385 - 1393
• Main Authors: Tipper, Steven P., Howard, Louise A., Houghton, George
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England The Royal Society 29.08.1998
• Subjects: Action-Based Frames; Animals; Attention; Attention - physiology; Brain - physiology; Cell lines; Crossover interference; Experimentation; Hands; Humans; Inhibition; Light emitting diodes; Mental objects; Mental stimulation; Observational frames of reference; Perception; Population Vectors; Response Competition; Spatial Representation and Attention; Visual perception; Visual Perception - physiology

Actions, which have effects in the external world, must be spatiotopically represented in the brain. The brain is capable of representing space in many different forms (e.g. retinotopic-, environment-, head- or shoulder-centred), but we maintain that actions are represented in action-centred space,...