Journal article
Selective attention to the parts of an object
Psychonomic bulletin & review, Vol.7(2), pp.301-308
06/2000
DOI: 10.3758/BF03212985
PMID: 10909137
Abstract
Recent empirical results suggest that there is a decrement in dividing attention between two objects in a scene compared with focusing attention on a single object. However, objects can be made of individual parts. Is there a decrement for dividing attention across different parts of a single object? We addressed this question in two experiments. In Experiment 1, we demonstrated that attention can exhibit part-based selection—that is, the subjects were more accurate in reporting two attributes from the same part of an object than they were in reporting attributes from different parts of an object. In Experiment 2, we demonstrated that part-based attentional decrements occurred simultaneously with object-based attentional decrements. The results from Experiment 2 demonstrated that part-based attention is evident at the same time as objects are processed as coherent wholes. Our results imply that there is an attentional mechanism that can select either objects or their parts.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Selective attention to the parts of an object
- Creators
- Shaun Vecera - Department of Psychology University of Iowa 11 Seashore Hall E. 52242-1407 Iowa City IAMarlene Behrmann - Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh PennsylvaniaJohn McGoldrick - University of Denver Denver Colorado
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Psychonomic bulletin & review, Vol.7(2), pp.301-308
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag; New York
- DOI
- 10.3758/BF03212985
- PMID
- 10909137
- ISSN
- 1069-9384
- eISSN
- 1531-5320
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/2000
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984066141902771
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