Feature binding, attention and object perception
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The seemingly effortless ability to perceive meaningful objects in an integrated scene actually depends on complex visual processes. The 'binding problem' concerns the way in which we select and integrate the separate features of objects in the correct combinations. Experiments suggest that attention plays a central role in solving this problem. Some neurological patients show a dramatic breakdown in the ability to see several objects; their deficits suggest a role for the parietal cortex in the binding process. However, indirect measures of priming and interference suggest that more information may be implicitly available than we can consciously access.
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- Authors
- Treisman, A.
- Affiliations
- Princeton University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Treisman, Anne
- Venue
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences
- Publisher
- The Royal Society
- Published
- 1998-08-29
- Volume
- 353
- Issue
- 1373
- Pages
- 1295-1306
- ISSN
- 0962-8436 (ISSN-L)
- 1471-2970
- PMC
- PMC1692340
- OpenAlex
- W2111990464
- Cited by
- 754
- References
- 54
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- FWCI
- 8.49
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- europepmc.org
- Locations
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
- Keywords
- feature binding, binding problem, visual attention, object perception, feature integration, parietal cortex, visual priming, interference, implicit information, neurological patients
- MeSH terms
- Attention, Humans, Parietal Lobe, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Psychomotor Performance, Visual Perception
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