Processing Streams in Early Vision

注意力选择到达我们意识的东西。当我们的注意力分散时， 即使当我们直视某事时，我们也可能错过它，无论它是 接近的汽车、坡道的边缘或在街上玩耍的孩子。注意力起到了 经常组织我们的心理过程和注意力障碍的关键作用 伴随着重大精神疾病。在这项提案中，我们重点关注三个方面 视觉注意的早期阶段。首先，我们使用注意跟踪任务来检查 为参与的空间位置编制索引的选择地图的属性。 其次，我们研究了个体信息提取的空间特性 选择位置，使用空间拥挤任务。最后，使用一种新的技术 移动的目标，我们分离非视网膜后选择分析。注意力才是最后的 什么经历的仲裁者和我们了解周围事件的指南 我们。我们对注意力了解得越多，我们就越有能力提高 心理功能，改善学习策略，构建最佳展示 信息，处理注意力的缺失，并更好地恢复那些 注意力的神经损伤。

Attention selects what reaches our awareness. When our attention wanders, we can miss seeing something even when we are staring right at it, whether it is an approaching car, an edge of a ramp, or child playing in the street. Attention plays a critical role in organizing our mental processes and disorders of attention frequently accompany the major mental diseases. In this proposal we focus on three aspects of the early stages of visual attention. First, we use attentional tracking tasks to examine the properties of the selection map that indexes the attended spatial locations. Second, we study the spatial properties of the uptake of information from a single selection location, using spatial crowding tasks. Finally using a new technique with moving targets we isolate non-retinotopic postselection analyses. Attention is the final arbiter of what ^experience and the guide to our learning about the events around us. The more we learn about attention, the better we will be equipped to enhance mental function, improve learning strategies, construct optimal displays of information, deal with failures of attention, and better rehabilitate those with neurological impairments of attention.