VISUAL-ATTENTION TO SURFACES IN 3-DIMENSIONAL SPACE
VISUAL-ATTENTION TO SURFACES IN 3-DIMENSIONAL SPACE
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.92.24.11155
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发表时间:
1995-11-21
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
NAKAYAMA, K
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作者:
HE, ZJ;NAKAYAMA, K
Although attention plays a significant role in vision, its spatial deployment and spread in the third dimension is not well understood. In visual search experiments we show that we cannot easily focus attention across isodepth loci unless they are part of a well-formed surface with locally coplanar elements. Yet we can easily spread our attention selectively across well-formed surfaces that span an extreme range of stereoscopic depths. In cueing experiments, we show that this spread of attention is, in part, obligatory. Attentional selectivity is reduced when targets and distracters are coplanar with or rest on a common receding stereoscopic plane. We conclude that attention cannot be efficiently allocated to arbitrary depths and extents in space but is linked to and spreads automatically across perceived surfaces.