Form perception and attention in pigeons

Developmental trajectories of form perception: A story of attention.

The developmental trajectories of selective and divided attention were examined in relation to the processing of hierarchically integrated stimuli. The participants included children in 4 age groups (6, 8, 10, and 12 years) and a group of young adults (24 years) who completed 2 computer-based attention tasks. In the selective attention task, the participants were instructed to attend to only 1 ...

Reference, perception, and attention

I examine John Campbell’s claim that the determination of the reference of a perceptual demonstrative requires conscious visual object-based selective attention. I argue that although Campbell’s claim to the effect that, first, a complex binding parameter is needed to establish the referent of a perceptual demonstrative, and, second, that this referent is determined independently of, and before...

Attention and visual perception.

Somewhere between the retina and our conscious visual experience, the majority of the information impinging on the eye is lost. We are typically aware of only either the most salient parts of a visual scene or the parts that we are actively paying attention to. Recent research on visual neurons in monkeys is beginning to show how the brain both selects and discards incoming visual information. ...

Attention, Perception, and Memory

Perception and Attention

The relation between perception and attention is discussed, via a taxonomy of attentioncentered around function. Five kinds are distinguished. The first is sampling, involving thepickup of information by the eye. Second is filtering (or gating), the control of informationconsidered relevant. The third is binding, involving the formation of more integrated structureover space. Fo...