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Jans, Bert; Peters, Judith C.; De Weerd, Peter – Psychological Review, 2010
A growing number of studies claim that spatial attention can be split "on demand" into several, segregated foci of enhanced processing. Intrigued by the theoretical ramifications of this proposal, we analyzed 19 relevant sets of experiments using four methodological criteria. We typically found several methodological limitations in each study that…
Descriptors: Models, Visual Perception, Spatial Ability, Attention
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Peters, Judith C.; Goebel, Rainer; Roelfsema, Pieter R. – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2009
If we search for an item, a representation of this item in our working memory guides attention to matching items in the visual scene. We can hold multiple items in working memory. Do all these items guide attention in parallel? We asked participants to detect a target object in a stream of objects while they maintained a second item in memory for…
Descriptors: Attention, Children, Short Term Memory, Visual Perception