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Why the item will remain the unit of attentional selection in visual search

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 May 2017

Martin Eimer
Martin Eimer*
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Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck, University of London, London WC1E 7HX, United Kingdom. m.eimer@bbk.ac.uk http://brainb.psyc.bbk.ac.uk/
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Abstract

Hulleman & Olivers (H&O) reject item-based serial models of visual search, and they suggest that items are processed equally and globally during each fixation period. However, neuroscientific studies have shown that attentional biases can emerge in parallel but in a spatially selective item-based fashion. Even within a parallel architecture for visual search, the item remains the critical unit of selection.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e137
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