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Published on: August 29, 2018
Attention and visual search: No crisis here
1Visual Attention Lab, Department of Surgery, Brigham & Women's Hospital/ Harvard Medical Schoolhttps://ror.org/04b6nzv94, Boston, MA02215, USA jwolfe@bwh.harvard.eduhttps://search.bwh.harvard.edu/new/index.html.
Abstract:
Rosenholtz's paper is a solid addition to a long tradition of throwing out babies with attentional bathwater (Di Lollo, ) (Wolfe, ) (Hulleman & Olivers, ) (Wolfe, ). She is correct that the term "attention" has been used in profligate and often ill-defined ways. That said, I argue that any plausible model of visual search must include visual selective attention.

