Science news articles about 'background clutter'

  • Visual attention: How the brain makes the most of the visible world

    ... bring salient details into focus and filter out background clutter. Two recent studies by researchers ... neuronal signals driven by task-irrelevant clutter." Neurons in the visual cortex view the world ...
  • Visual Attention: How The Brain Makes The Most Of The Visible World

    ... the retina. Instead, the brain relies on attention to bring salient details into focus and filter out background clutter. Two recent studies have helped to unravel the mechanisms underlying attention.
  • Rising above the din

    ... on attention to bring details of interest into focus so it can select them out from background clutter. In their study, Reynolds, Mitchell, and former graduate student Kristy Sundberg asked whether ...

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