ILLUSORY CONJUNCTIONS INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE FOCUS OF ATTENTION
ILLUSORY CONJUNCTIONS INSIDE AND OUTSIDE THE FOCUS OF ATTENTION
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DOI:
10.1037/0096-1523.15.4.650
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发表时间:
1989-11-01
影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
IVRY, R
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作者:
COHEN, A;IVRY, R
This article addresses 2 questions that arise from the finding (eg, W. Prinzmetal et al; see record 1986-26854-001) that visual scenes are first parsed into visual features:(a) the accumulation of location information about objects during their recognition and (b) the mechanism for the binding of the visual features. The first 2 experiments demonstrated that when 2 colored letters were presented outside the initial focus of attention, illusory conjunctions between the color of one letter and the shape of the other were formed only if the letters were less than 1 apart. Separation greater than 2 resulted in fewer conjunction errors than expected by chance. Experiments 3 and 4 showed that inside the spread of attention, illusory connections between the 2 letters can occur regardless of the distance between them. In addition, these experiments demonstrated that the span of attention can expand or shrink like a spotlight. The results suggest that features inside the focus of attention are integrated by an expandable focal attention mechanism that conjoins all features that appear inside its focus. Visual features outside the focus of attention may be registered with coarse location information prior to their integration. Alternatively, a quick and imprecise shift of attention to the periphery may lead to illusory conjunctions among adjacent stimuli.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)