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(Temporal) Visual Attention NOT in Crisis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 November 2025

Paul Edmund Dux Open the ORCID record for Paul Edmund Dux [Opens in a new window] ,
Roberto Dell’Acqua  and
Bradley Wyble
Paul Edmund Dux*
Affiliation:
The University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD, Australia paul.e.dux@gmail.com
Roberto Dell’Acqua
Affiliation:
University of Padova, Padova, PD, Italy dar@unipd.it
Bradley Wyble
Affiliation:
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States bpw10@psu.edu
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*Corresponding author.
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Abstract

Extensive research using the attentional blink phenomenon illustrates, through behavioural, modelling and cognitive neuroscience approaches, that distinct selection and attention capacity limits exist. Crucially, these effects cannot reflect peripheral visual processes nor distinct task operations across conditions controlling for issues raised by Rosenholtz. Moving away from attention and selection concepts hinder rather than facilitate a mechanistic understanding of vision.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 48 , 2025 , e139
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