Attention vs Perception: When is selection optimal, when relational?

本项目旨在研究早期视觉选择和知觉决策之间的重要的、新发现的分离。与目前的理论相反，注意和知觉过程被调整到关系与最优解释中描述的不同刺激属性，这意味着目前的注意理论没有描述早期注意，而是描述后来的决策过程。该项目将提供对这些过程的准确描述，这有望带来重要的理论突破。通过识别心理物理学和神经科学研究中容易出错的方法，并提出补救措施，该项目的工作也将显著推进检测和描述早期注意力过程的方法。

This project aims to investigate an important, newly discovered dissociation between early visual selection and perceptual decision-making. Contrary to current theories, attentional and perceptual processes are tuned to different stimulus attributes described in the relational vs. optimal account, which implies that current theories of attention do not describe early attention but later, decisional processes. This project will provide an accurate description of these processes, which promises important theoretical breakthroughs. Work on this project will also significantly advance methods to detect and describe early attentional processes, by identifying error-prone methods of Psychophysics and Neuroscience studies, and proposing remedies.