Early and late selection: Effects of load, dilution and salience

• Main Author: Tal Makovski (auth)
• Other Authors: Bernhard Hommel (auth), Glyn Humphreys (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2014
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; salience; dilution; Attention; perceptual load; early selection; Late selection
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Our visual system is constantly bombarded by a variety of stimuli, of which only a small part is relevant to the task at hand. As a result, goal-directed behavior requires a high degree of selectivity at some point in the processing stream. The precise point at which selection takes place has been t...