Visual attention: How the brain makes the most of the visible world
Thursday, March 26, 2009 - 08:07
in Biology & Nature
The visual system has limited capacity and cannot process everything that falls onto the retina. Instead, the brain relies on attention to bring salient details into focus and filter out background clutter. Two recent studies by researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, one study employing computational modelling techniques and the other experimental techniques, have helped to unravel the mechanisms underlying attention...
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