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Selective attention systems can be characterized as a collection of brain mechanisms. The function of these mechanisms is the modulation of the impact of external and internal environmental stimuli on overt or covert (e.g., cognitive) behavior of the organism. Many theories of attention assume that the basic function of attentional mechanisms is to protect the brain’s limited capacity system from informational overload.
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Mulder, G., Wijers, A.A., Brookhuis, K.A., Smid, H.G.O.M., Mulder, L.J.M. (1994). Selective Visual Attention: Selective Cuing, Selective Cognitive Processing, and Selective Response Processing. In: Heinze, HJ., Münte, T.F., Mangun, G.R. (eds) Cognitive Electrophysiology. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0283-7_2
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