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Sensation and Perception

Spatial Cueing

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Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University

Attention refers to the limited human ability to select some information for processing at the expense of other stimuli in the environment. Attention operates in all sensory modalities: vision, hearing, touch, even taste and smell. I...

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Our ability to select certain information in an environment to process, while ignoring other stimuli, is referred to as attention.

Visual attention can either be overt?where the eyes are consciously aimed towards an object, like a rising full moon?or covert, in which a person notices something that they are not looking at directly.

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