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SUMMARY:Attention and some varieties of blindness
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LOCATION:20 Chancellor's Walk\, Clayton\, Melbourne\, Australia\, 3800
DESCRIPTION:<p><strong>Abstract:</strong> This talk begins from two points about visual attention. First\, attention plays a role in binding together visual features (e.g.&nbsp\;colour\, shape\, orientation\, and motion) as belonging to a single object. The notion of binding can be extended to binding or grouping the components of a shape (e.g.&nbsp\;the three line segments that make up a triangle)\, but the attentional requirements of this &lsquo\;form binding&rsquo\; are low. Even the attentional requirements of feature binding can sometimes be reduced and\, in a multi-stage model of binding\, it is only the final stage that is attention-dependent. <em>What is the cognitive role of attention in this late stage of feature binding?</em> The second point about attention is that people often fail to notice an object or event right in front of their eyes\, when their attention is otherwise engaged: this is inattentional blindness. Other varieties of blindness involve data limitations (e.g.&nbsp\;visual masking) or resource limitations (e.g. change blindness). This talk will consider\, in contrast to all these varieties of blindness\, a phenomenon in which limitations of data and resources do not play a role and yet <em>stimuli to which attention is directed disappear</em>. Investigating this &lsquo\;attentional&rsquo\; (rather than inattentional) variety of blindness suggests an answer to the question about the cognitive role of attention in feature binding.</p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Jacqueline Broad:
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