Shifting the Spotlight of Attention: Evidence for Discrete Computations in Cognition

Our thoughts have a limited bandwidth; we can only fully process a few items in mind simultaneously. To compensate, the brain developed attention, the ability to select information relevant to the current task, while filtering out the rest. Therefore, by understanding the neural mechanisms of atte...

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Main Authors: Timothy J Buschman, Earl K Miller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2010-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2010.00194/full