@article{ref1,
title="Space-, object-, and feature-based attention interact to organize visual scenes",
journal="Attention, perception and psychophysics",
year="2011",
author="Kravitz, Dwight J. and Behrmann, Marlene",
volume="73",
number="8",
pages="2434-2447",
abstract="Biased-competition accounts of attentional processing propose that attention arises from distributed interactions within and among different types of perceptual representations (e.g., spatial, featural, and object-based). Although considerable research has examined the facilitation in processing afforded by attending selectively to spatial locations, or to features, or to objects, surprisingly little research has addressed a key prediction of the biased-competition account: that attending to any stimulus should give rise to simultaneous interactions across all the types of perceptual representations encompassed by that stimulus. Here we show that, when an object in a visual display is cued, space-, feature-, and object-based forms of attention interact to enhance processing of that object and to create a scene-wide pattern of attentional facilitation. These results provide evidence to support the biased-competition framework and suggest that attention might be thought of as a mechanism by which multiple, disparate bottom-up, and even top-down, visual perceptual representations are coordinated and preferentially enhanced.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1943-3921",
doi="10.3758/s13414-011-0201-z",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-011-0201-z"
}