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Attention and visual search: No crisis here

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 November 2025

Jeremy M. M. Wolfe Open the ORCID record for Jeremy M. M. Wolfe [Opens in a new window]
Jeremy M. M. Wolfe*
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Abstract

Rosenholtz’s paper is a solid addition to a long tradition of throwing out babies with attentional bathwater (Di Lollo, 2012) (Wolfe, 2012) (Hulleman & Olivers, 2017) (Wolfe, 2017). She is correct that the term “attention” has been used in profligate and often ill-defined ways. That said, I argue that any plausible model of visual search must include visual selective attention.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 48 , 2025 , e159
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