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visual attention CONCEPT
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two-stage process in which attention is distributed uniformly over the external visual scene and processing of information is performed in parallel, attention is then concentrated to a specific area of the visual scene (i.e. it is focused), and processing is performed in a serial fashion.

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visual attention
is a kind of
  • attention
    • visual attention
    is a part of
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    are a kind of
    visual attention
  • spatial attention
    • are a part of
    visual attention
    No associations

    Tasks that are asserted to measure visual attention

    Task Contrast Measure
    visuospatial cueing task
    • reaction time to incongruent cues minus reaction time to congruent cues
    visual pursuit/tracking
    • d' (difference between correct identifications and false alarms)
    visual attention task
    • reaction time after some manipulation minus reaction time at baseline
    rapid serial object transformation
    • accuracy of participant minus average accuracy of controls
    • ERP strength minus baseline
    fixation task
    • degree of eye movement

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