Selective attention during scene perception: Evidence from negative priming

Natural-scene perception requires attention.

Is visual attention required for visual consciousness? In the past decade, many researchers have claimed that awareness can arise in the absence of attention. This claim is largely based on the notion that natural scene (or "gist") perception occurs without attention. This article presents evidence against this idea. We show that when observers perform a variety of demanding, sustained-attentio...

Attention-memory interactions in scene perception.

The perception of natural scenes relies on the integration of pre-existing knowledge with the immediate results of attentional processing, and what can be remembered from a scene depends in turn on how that scene is perceived and understood. However, there are conflicting results in the literature as to whether people are more likely to remember those objects that are consistent with the scene ...

On the difference between response inhibition and negative priming: evidence from simple and selective stopping.

Negative priming is a commonly observed after-effect in studies concerning inhibition. Effects of the preceding trial are also found in other paradigms, like the stop signal paradigm. In the present study, stop signals were introduced in a negative priming paradigm and the relation between stop signal inhibition and negative priming was investigated. In Experiment 1, we used a simple stop signa...

Selective Attention, Priming, and Foraging Behavior

The Time Course of Natural Scene Perception with Reduced Attention Scene Perception with Reduced Attention Author Names and Affiliations

20 Attention is thought to impose an informational bottleneck on vision by selecting 21 particular information from visual scenes for enhanced processing. Behavioral 22 evidence suggests, however, that some scene information can be extracted even 23 when attention is directed elsewhere. Here, we investigated the neural correlates of 24 this ability by examining how attention affects electrophys...