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Toward a paradigm shift in visual attention
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 November 2025
Abstract
The commentaries debated numerous points in the target article. Many questioned the existence of a crisis and the benefits of a paradigm shift, even though none countered the listed signs of a crisis. Paradigm shifts are an important way that science progresses. There remains hope for a unifying theory, and for a reawakening of an ambitious science of visual attention.
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Target article
Visual Attention in Crisis
Related commentaries (30)
(Temporal) Visual Attention NOT in Crisis
40 ms matters
A new algorithm of human attention
Attention and visual search: No crisis here
Attention in evolutionary perspective
Attention is doing just fine! Just don’t take it too seriously
Attention is still a productive framework
Attention, the homunculus, and the Greek theater effect
Banishing “Attention” from the study of temporal attention
Beyond the Blink: How Task Complexity, Temporal Crowding, and Ensemble Perception Reframe the Debate on Attention and Action
Building attention on a firm foundation
Crisis, contextualized: A much broader theoretical shift is needed
Development is a pathway for understanding visual attention and peripheral function
In defense of attention: why perceptual selection cannot be replaced by decision boundaries
Interactions between cortical and subcortical circuits for visual attention
Is allocentric neglect an attentional disorder?
Is attention a theory?
Lossy processing principles in 2D and 3D vision
Low experimental power makes a crisis in visual attention inevitable, but easy to address
Mechanistic disunity as attention in crisis
No crisis when attention is the outcome of selective action
Pay attention to eye movement behavior
Peripheral vision and attention: A longstanding dissociation
Putting effort into task complexity
Seeing attention in inattentional blindness
Spurious crisis versus sustainable science
Starting a revolution with a refuted model?
The (mis)use of the gate metaphor for attention
The interplay between selective attention and summary statistics
Visual attention as an integrated sensorimotor process
Author response
Toward a paradigm shift in visual attention