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A new algorithm of human attention
Ilker Yildirim1, Mario Belledonne1
1Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA ilker.yildirim@yale.edu mario.belledonne@yale.edu.
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How do our goals continually impact perceptual processing? The answer could arise from a computational specification of perception in terms of visual tasks, or perhaps several mechanisms operating over specific contexts. Here, we suggest an alternative: adaptive computation, a new algorithmic account of attention that rations the general resource of perceptual computations according to their impact on decision making.
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