Size averaging of irrelevant stimuli cannot be prevented
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Size averaging of irrelevant stimuli cannot be prevented
Research suggests that subjects can compute the mean size of two sets of interspersed objects concurrently, but that doing so incurs a cost of dividing attention across the two sets. Alternatively, costs may arise from failing to exclude irrelevant items from the calculation of mean size. Here, we examined whether attention can be selectively deployed to prevent the inclusion of items from an i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Vision Research
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0042-6989
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2012.12.004