Attention: Selective Attention and Consciousness

Encyclopedia of Consciousness

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 61-75

  Howe, P D L ^a   Evans, K K ^a   Pedersini, R ^a   Horowitz, T S ^a   Wolfe, J M ^a   Cohen, M A ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Awareness; Ballint's syndrome; Binding problem; Blindsight; Condillac; Feature integration theory; Feature maps; Illusory conjunctions; Object recognition; Pop out; Postattentive; Preattentive; Reverse hierarchy theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874553534     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012373873-8.00007-4     Document Type: Chapter

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