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Selective attention is an old topic within experimental psychology (James, 1890) and most frequently refers to performance when there are conflicts between signals. Attention involves selection of higher levels of processing, while preventing access of other signals to those same high levels of processing. Selective attention plays an important role in most cognitive tasks, including pattern recognition, reading, and mental imagery (Posner, 1982).
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Gawryszewski, L., Faria, R.B., Thomaz, T.G., Pinheiro, W.M., Rizzolatti, G., Umilta, C. (1992). Reorienting Visual Spatial Attention: Is It Based on Cartesian Coordinates?. In: Lent, R. (eds) The Visual System from Genesis to Maturity. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6726-8_19
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