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Attention is doing just fine! Just don’t take it too seriously

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 November 2025

Árni Kristjánsson Open the ORCID record for Árni Kristjánsson [Opens in a new window]  and
Andrey Chetverikov
Árni Kristjánsson*
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Icelandic Vision Laboratory, University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland ak@hi.is
Andrey Chetverikov
Affiliation:
Department of Psychosocial Science, Faculty of Psychology, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway Andrey.Chetverikov@uib.no www.visionlab.is
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Abstract

We do not share Rosenholtz’s central worry that visual attention is in “crisis”. There are many examples of notable progress in understanding how the brain prioritizes and gathers information about the environment where “attention,” as a relatively loose concept, has worked well. We also discuss how focusing on a single definition, the field can be led astray.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 48 , 2025 , e147
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