A Feature-Integration Theory of Attention.

Treisman, A. M., & Gelade, G. (1980). A Feature-Integration Theory of Attention. Cognitive Psychology, 12(1), 97-136.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1980

DOI

10.1016/0010-0285(80)90005-5

Link

https://doi.org/10.1016/0010-0285(80)90005-5

Cited from

cognitive_science

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3 citations across 3 artifacts.

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Primes

• Binding Problem
  • Cognitive neuroscience: colour, shape, motion, and location are computed in separate cortical areas, and conscious perception of a red moving square requires binding them into one object

    This sourceFounds feature-integration theory: separable features (color, orientation, motion) are registered pre-attentively in parallel and bound into objects only by focal spatial attention, with flat single-feature search and linear conjunction-search slopes.

• Pattern Recognition
  • Pattern recognition can be fast and approximate (expert "blink" judgments) or slow and deliberate (feature-by-feature verification).

Mechanisms

• Contrastive Visual Interrupt
  • Its strength is speed and cheapness: a single-feature break is found by pop-out — pre-attentive feature search — in a fraction of a second, with almost no reading cost, which is exactly what a habituated, skimming viewer needs.

    This sourceShows that a target distinguished by a unique single feature can pop out through preattentive parallel search.

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