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Du, Feng; Abrams, Richard A. – Cognition, 2012
To avoid sensory overload, people are able to selectively attend to a particular color or direction of motion while ignoring irrelevant stimuli that differ from the desired one. We show here for the first time that it is also possible to selectively attend to a specific line orientation--but with an important caveat: orientations that are…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Motion, Stimuli, Neurology

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