Attention: Selective Attention and Consciousness

P. D L Howe; K. K. Evans; R. Pedersini; T. S. Horowitz; J. M. Wolfe; M. A. Cohen

doi:10.1016/B978-012373873-8.00007-4

Attention: Selective Attention and Consciousness

P. D L Howe^*, K. K. Evans, R. Pedersini, T. S. Horowitz, J. M. Wolfe, M. A. Cohen

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This article discusses the influence of selective attention on consciousness. It is argued that attention is necessary, although not sufficient, for the awareness of the relationship or conjunction of different aspects of a scene or object. It is suggested that a primary function of attention is to permit the binding of features into recognizable objects. When attention is occupied elsewhere, there is a degree of awareness of the presence of visual features, though not of their relationships, and this may allow one to perform certain simple tasks such as determining whether an image includes either an animal or a vehicle.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Encyclopedia of Consciousness
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	61-75
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Print)	9780123738738
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012373873-8.00007-4
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2010

Keywords

Awareness
Ballint's syndrome
Binding problem
Blindsight
Condillac
Feature integration theory
Feature maps
Illusory conjunctions
Object recognition
Pop-out
Postattentive
Preattentive
Reverse hierarchy theory

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