How do you pay attention?
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Woodman and Luck have reported the latest attempts to distinguish between serial and parallel modes of attention, in favour of the serial view. They used event-related potentials (ERPs), scalp recordings of electrical activity in the human brain. An ERP waveform known as N2pc, were shown to be linked with attentional selection, and a signal switch was found to be consistent with serial deployment of attention.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1999
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Resolving perceptual ambiguity
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The competition for perceptual dominance between the right and the left eye is stimulus-specific as exchanging the stimulus between the two eyes has no effect on perception. The stimulus-specific mechanism imposes a single perceptual interpretation on the competing stimuli. The left and right eyes do not show binocular rivalry where the interocular mechanism selects between the left-eye and right-eye stimuli.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1996
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Stereoscopic depth perception at high velocities
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The theory of binocular stereopsis is analyzed in terms of its application to a moving object and observer. The disparity that arises from the use of two eyes is complex enough but is ably managed by the visual system to calculate relative distances and shapes. However, this complexity becomes magnified when dealing with moving targets. In this case, neurons which have special filtering qualities.
Publication Name: Nature
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0028-0836
Year: 1995
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