Shifting attention into and out of objects: Evaluating the processes underlying the object advantage

Perception and Psychophysics

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 606-618

  Brown, James M ^a,b   Denney, Hope I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b University of Georgia ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547838120     PISSN: 00315117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193918     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. ABRAMS, R. A., & LAW, M. B. (2000). Object-based visual attention with endogenous orienting. Perception A Psychophysics, 62, 818-833.
2. ARRINGTON, C. M., CARR, T. H., MAYER, A. R., & RAO, S. M. (2000). Neural mechanisms of visual attention: Object-based selection of a region in space. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12(Suppl. 2), 106-117.
3. AVRAHAMI, J. (1999). Objects of attention, objects of perception. Perception A Psychophysics, 61, 1604-1612.
4. BROWN, J. M., BREITMEYER, B. G., LEIGHTY, K. A., & DENNEY, H. I. (2006). The path of visual attention. Acta Psychologica, 121, 199-209.
5. CORBETTA, M., KINCADE, J. M., OLLINGER, J. M., MCAVOY, M. P., & SHULMAN, G. L. (2000). Voluntary orienting is dissociated from target detection in human parietal cortex. Nature Neuroscience, 3, 292-297.
6. CORBETTA, M., & SHULMAN, G. L. (2002). Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 3,201-215.
7. DAVIS, G., DRIVER, J., PAVANI, F., & SHEPHERD, A. (2000). Reappraising the apparent costs of attending to two separate visual objects. Vision Research, 40, 1323-1332.
8. EGLY, R., DRIVER, J., & RAFAL, R. D. (1994). Shifting visual attention between objects and locations: Evidence from normal and parietal lesion subjects. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 123, 161-177.
9. EGLY, R., RAFAL, R., DRIVER, J., & STARRVEVELD, Y. (1994). Covert orienting in the split brain reveals hemispheric specialization for object-based attention. Psychological Science, 5, 380-383.
10. GOLDSMITH, M., & YEARI, M. (2003). Modulation of object-based attention by spatial focus under endogenous and exogenous orienting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception A Performance, 29, 897-918.
11. LAMY, D., & EGETH, H. (2002). Object-based selection: The role of attentional shifts. Perception A Psychophysics, 64, 52-66.
12. LAVIE, N., & DRIVER, J. (1996). On the spatial extent of attention in object-based visual selection. Perception A Psychophysics, 58, 1238-1251.
13. LAW, M. B., & ABRAMS, R. A. (2002). Object-based selection within and beyond the focus of spatial attention. Perception A Psychophysics, 64, 1017-1027.
14. LEEK, E. C., REPPA, I., & TIPPER, S. P. (2003). Inhibition of return for objects and locations in static displays. Perception A Psychophysics, 65, 388-395.
15. POSNER, M. I. (1980). Orienting of attention. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 32, 3-25.
16. REPPA, I., & LEEK, E. C. (2003). The modulation of inhibition of return by object-internal structure: Implications for theories of object-based attentional selection. Psychonomic Bulletin A Review, 10, 493-502.
17. SERENCES, J. T., LIU, T., & YANTIS, S. (2005). Parietal mechanisms of attentional control: Locations, features, and objects. In L. Itti, G. Rees, & J. K. Tsotsos (Eds.), Neurobiology of attention (pp. 35-41). San Diego: Academic Press.
18. SHOMSTEIN, S., & YANTIS, S. (2002). Object-based attention: Sensory modulation or priority setting? Perception A Psychophysics, 64, 41-51.
19. SHOMSTEIN, S., & YANTIS, S. (2004). Configurai and contextual prioritization in object-based attention. Psychonomic Bulletin A Review, 11, 247-253.
20. TIPPER, S. P., WEAVER, B., JERREAT, L. M., & BURAK, A. L. (1994). Object-based and environment-based inhibition of return of visual attention. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception A Performance, 20, 478-499.
21. VECERA, S. P. (1994). Grouped locations and object-based attention: Comment on Egly, Drive, and Rafal (1994). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 123, 316-320.
22. VECERA, S. P. (2000). Toward a biased competition account of object-based segregation and attention. Brain A Mind, 1, 353-384.
23. VECERA, S. P., & BEHRMANN, M. (2001). Attention and unit formation: A biased competition account of object-based attention. In T. F. Shipley & P. J. Kellman (Eds.), From fragments to objects: Segregation and grouping in vision (pp. 145-180). Amsterdam: North-Holland.
24. VECERA, S. P., & FLEVARIS, A. V. (2005). Attention control parameters following parietal-lobe damage: Evidence from normal subjects. Neuropsychologia, 43, 1189-1203.
25. WEISSTEIN, N., & HARRIS, C. S. (1974). Visual detection of line segments: An object-superiority effect Science, 186, 752-755.
26. WILLIAMS, A., & WEISSTEIN, N. (1978). Line segments are perceived better in a coherent context than alone: An object-line effect in visual perception. Memory A Cognition, 6, 85-90.
27. YANTIS, S., SCHWARZBACH, J., SERENCES, J. T., CARLSON, R. L., STEINMETZ, M. A., PEKAR, J. J., & COURTNEY, S. M. (2002). Transient neural activity in human parietal cortex during spatial attention shifts. Nature Neuroscience, 5, 995-1002.
28. YANTIS, S., & SERENCES, J. T. (2003). Cortical mechanisms of space-based and object-based attentional control. Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 13, 187-193.