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Visual Attention in Crisis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 May 2024

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Ruth Rosenholtz*
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Recent research on peripheral vision has led to a paradigm-shifting conclusion: vision science as a field must rethink visual attention. This article reviews the evidence for a crisis in attention science and examines supposedly attentional phenomena to ask which point to additional capacity limits. Based on the resulting list of critical phenomena, and what they have in common, I propose an alternative way to think about capacity limits and the underlying mechanisms.

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attentioncapacity limitscomplexityperipheral visionselection

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 48 , 2025 , e130
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