Author : Alex Holcombe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009007564
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Book Synopsis Attending to Moving Objects by : Alex Holcombe
Download or read book Attending to Moving Objects written by Alex Holcombe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our minds are severely limited in how much information they can extensively process, in spite of being massively parallel at the visual end. When people attempt to track moving objects, only a limited number can be tracked, which varies with display parameters. Associated experiments indicate that spatial selection and updating has higher capacity than selection and updating of features such as color and shape, and is mediated by processes specific to each cerebral hemisphere, such that each hemifield has its own spatial tracking limit. These spatial selection processes act as a bottleneck that gate subsequent processing. To improve our understanding of this bottleneck, future work should strive to avoid contamination of tracking tasks by high-level cognition. While we are far from fully understanding how attention keeps up with multiple moving objects, what we already know illuminates the architecture of visual processing and offers promising directions for new discoveries.