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Tatiana Aloi Emmanouil1, Hagit Magen2
1Baruch College and Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
|May 6, 2014
Abstract:
Behavioral and neural evidence suggests that attention selects entire objects, amplifying all of their features regardless of task relevance. A new magnetoencephalography (MEG) study by Schoenfeld et al. elucidates the time course of this selection, showing that object features are activated sequentially, with attention spreading from task-relevant to task-irrelevant modules.
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