Target–object integration, attention distribution, and object orientation interactively modulate object-based selection

Object-based attention overrides perceptual load to modulate visual distraction.

The ability to ignore task-irrelevant information and overcome distraction is central to our ability to efficiently carry out a number of tasks. One factor shown to strongly influence distraction is the perceptual load of the task being performed; as the perceptual load of task-relevant information processing increases, the likelihood that task-irrelevant information will be processed and inter...

Object-based attentional selection can modulate the Stroop effect.

The Stroop (1935) effect is the inability to ignore a color word when the task is to report the ink color of that word (i.e., to say "green" to the word RED in green ink). The present study investigated whether object-based processing contributes to the Stroop effect. According to this view, observers are unable to ignore irrelevant features of an attended object (Kahneman & Henik, 1981). In th...

Interactively Refining Object-Recognition System

Existing techniques for object recognition often make use of a combination of multiple algorithms and sensors to achieve adequate results. In this paper we propose a real-time system to efficiently combine multiple object-recognition techniques, appropriate for mobile Augmented Reality applications. We focus on the challenge to differentiate objects with only marginal distinguishing features th...

Attention-based Object Detection

Interference between object-based attention and object-based memory.

Research has shown that there are at least two kinds of visual selective attention: location based and object based. In the present study, we sought to determine the locus of spatially invariant object-based selection using a dual-task paradigm. In four experiments, observers performed an attention task (object feature report or visual search) with a concurrent memory task (object memory or spa...