@article{ref1,
title="On the precision of goal-directed attentional selection",
journal="Journal of experimental psychology: human perception and performance",
year="2014",
author="Anderson, Brian A.",
volume="40",
number="5",
pages="1755-1762",
abstract="Attention selects objects in a scene for cognitive processing. A growing body of evidence has been used to argue that observers are able to narrowly restrict attentional selection to stimuli that match a feature-based target template while ignoring similar-looking distractors. For example, visual search for a target among feature-similar nontargets is highly efficient. Here, I demonstrate that observers are substantially impaired at selecting a target among feature-similar nontargets when stimuli are compared with a target template serially in time. The results argue that goal-directed attentional selection is distinctly imprecise, and that comparing stimuli with a target template reflects an inefficient mechanism of selection that cannot fully explain visual search performance under demanding conditions. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0096-1523",
doi="10.1037/a0037685",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0037685"
}