Multisensory and configural processes in tracking moving targets

在繁忙的场景中，我们的物体跟踪能力帮助我们将注意力集中在最重要的物体上，例如迎面而来的汽车。因此，跟踪提供了认知和感官世界之间的关键纽带。本研究中的实验将揭示来自不同感官和两个大脑半球的信息是如何协调的，以使有限的认知处理资源作用于最重要的对象。这个项目不是通过对象上的独立聚光灯来跟踪操作，而是展示如何使用对象的配置来保持所有聚光灯在目标上。这种跨越感官和大脑半球的配置过程的作用将进一步阐明我们的大脑与外部世界的联系的架构。

In busy scenes, our object tracking ability helps us keep our minds on the objects of greatest importance, such as oncoming cars. Tracking thus provides a key link between cognition and the sensory world. Experiments in this study will reveal how information from different senses and the two cerebral hemispheres are coordinated, to bring the limited resources of cognitive processing to bear on the objects of greatest importance. Rather than tracking operating via independent spotlights on objects, this project will show how the configuration of objects is used to keep all the spotlights on target. The role of this configural process across the senses and cerebral hemispheres will shed further light on the architecture of our mind's link to the outside world.