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Vision and Attention

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Vision and Attention

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The term “visual attention” embraces many aspects of vision. It refers to processes that find, pull out and may possibly even help to define, features in the visual environment. All these processes take the form of interactions between the observer and the environment: attention is drawn by some aspects of the visual scene but the observer is critical in defining which aspects are selected.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, York University, 4700 Keele Street, M3J 1P3, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Michael Jenkin

  2. Department of Psychology, York University, 4700 Keele Street, M3J 1P3, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Laurence Harris

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Harris, L.R., Jenkin, M. (2001). Vision and Attention. In: Jenkin, M., Harris, L. (eds) Vision and Attention. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21591-4_1

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