Attentional Selection: Mexican Hats Everywhere
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A recent study elegantly shows that allocating attention to a particular color not only enhances perception of the attended color but also suppresses that of similar colors, presumably giving any potentially relevant object in the visual environment a perceptual advantage by increasing its perceptual strength at the expense of similar but different stimuli.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Current Biology
دوره 24 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2014