There Is No Such Thing As Attention

Given that the core issues of attention research have been recognized for millenia, we do not know as much about attention as we should. I argue that the reasons for this failure are 1) we create spurious dichotomies, 2) we reify attention, treating it as a cause, when it is an effect, and 3) we equ...

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Main Author: Britt eAnderson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2011-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00246/full