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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"attention capture"”.
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The visual processing of human faces and bodies as visual stimuli in natural scenes
… in a visual scene and that they automatically capture a viewer’s attention over other objects. However, under natural viewing conditions the human face is attached to a substantial cue, the human body. The evidence to-date of a similar attentional processing advantage for human bodies is less …
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Attention to Non-Contiguous Locations of the Visual Field
… challenged the traditionally accepted idea that attention can be directed to only one connected area at a time. We investigated this issue with a same-different matching task while pre-cueing two separate locations. Our results suggested that attention can be allocated to noncontiguous regions of …
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Catching the mind's eye: the effect of internal distraction on external attention
Most studies of human attention focus on how individuals are able to allocate their attention to various perceptual sources in the environment. Yet, the internal processing of information, such as holding or manipulating information in working memory, speech comprehension, and long-term memory …