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@article{citeulike:4948247, abstract = {One way of perceptually organizing a complex visual scene is to attend selectively to information in a particular physical location. Another way of reducing the complexity in the input is to attend selectively to an individual object in the scene and to process its elements preferentially. This latter, object-based attention process was examined, and the predicted superiority for reporting features from 1 relative to 2 objects was replicated in a series of experiments. This object-based process was robust even under conditions of occlusion, although there were some boundary conditions on its operation. Finally, an account of the data is provided via simulations of the findings in a computational model. The claim is that object-based attention arises from a mechanisms that groups together those features based on internal representations developed over perceptual experience and then preferentially gates these features for later, selective processing.}, author = {Behrmann, M. and Zemel, R. S. and Mozer, M. C.}, citeulike-article-id = {4948247}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9706708}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=9706708}, issn = {0096-1523}, journal = {Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance}, keywords = {attention, comps, connectionism, figure-ground, models, object\_based\_attention, segmentation, vision}, month = {August}, number = {4}, pages = {1011--1036}, posted-at = {2009-06-24 22:59:07}, priority = {0}, title = {Object-based attention and occlusion: evidence from normal participants and a computational model.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9706708}, volume = {24}, year = {1998} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4948247 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4948247 N2 - One way of perceptually organizing a complex visual scene is to attend selectively to information in a particular physical location. Another way of reducing the complexity in the input is to attend selectively to an individual object in the scene and to process its elements preferentially. This latter, object-based attention process was examined, and the predicted superiority for reporting features from 1 relative to 2 objects was replicated in a series of experiments. This object-based process was robust even under conditions of occlusion, although there were some boundary conditions on its operation. Finally, an account of the data is provided via simulations of the findings in a computational model. The claim is that object-based attention arises from a mechanisms that groups together those features based on internal representations developed over perceptual experience and then preferentially gates these features for later, selective processing. IS - 4 JF - Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance SN - 0096-1523 EP - 1036 TI - Object-based attention and occlusion: evidence from normal participants and a computational model. VL - 24 SP - 1011 KW - attention KW - comps KW - connectionism KW - figure-ground KW - models KW - object_based_attention KW - segmentation KW - vision AU - Behrmann, M AU - Zemel, RS AU - Mozer, MC PY - 1998/08// UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9706708 ER -