Object-based attention

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The allocation of visual attention is affected by the features of objects in the scene , even if these are not relevent to the task. For example, objects are recognized more readily in a semantically consistent visual context.

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• Atchley, P., & Kramer, A. F. (2001). Object and space-based attentional selection in three-dimensional space. Visual Cognition, 8, 1-32.
• Avrahami, J. (1999). Objects of attention, objects of perception. Perception & Psychophysics, 61, 1604-1612.
• Chen, Z., & Cave, K.R. () Reinstating object-based attention under positional certainty: The importance of subjective parsing. Perception & Psychophysics. Full text
• Chen, Z. (1998). Switching attention within and between objects: The role of subjective organization. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 52, 7-16.
• Chen, Z., and Cave, K. R. (2005). Object based attention is affected by time and experience and not by processing load or abrupt onsets.
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• Goldsmith, M., & Yeari, M. (2003). Modulation of object-based attention by spatial focus under endogenous and exogenous orienting. Journal of Experimental Psychology:Human Perception & Performance, 29, 897–918.
• Kramer, A. F., & Jacobson, A. (1991). Perceptual organization and focused attention: The role of objects and proximity in visual processing. Perception & Psychophysics, 50, 267-284.
• Kramer, A. F., Weber, T. A., & Watson, S. E. (1997). Object-based attentional selection - grouped arrays or spatially invariant representations?: Comment on Vecera and Farah (1994). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 126, 3-13.
• LaBerge, D., & Brown, V. (1989). Theory of attentional operations in shape

identification. Psychological Review, 96, 101-124.

• Shomstein, S., & Yantis, S. (2002). Object-based attention: Sensory modulation or

priority setting. Perception & Psychophysics, 64, 41-51.

• Vecera, S. P., & Farah, M. J. (1994). Does visual attention select objects or locations? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 123, 316-320.

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