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attention
You focus on what you expect to see.
Feature integration theory suggests we use focused attention at a specific location to bind pre-attentively registered features into a coherent object.
The binding process is driven by spatial attention, not by the selective attention to features themselves.
A glance at a room is a collection of parts, not a whole.
Where this comes from
- Study
- Treisman and Gelade, 1980
- What the check found
- The theory focuses on spatial location as the 'glue' rather than the active selection of individual features.
- Confidence
- Solid, with limits
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