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Comment on Theeuwes’s Characterization of Visual Selection

Theeuwes (2018, this issue) argues that the classic dichotomy describing the factors that guide attention (bottom-up and top-down) is inadequate and should be replaced by a trichotomy (bottom-up, top-down, and selection history). In contrast, I argue that top-down is a broad category that comfortabl...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Egeth, Howard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ubiquity Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6644922/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31517199
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/joc.29
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Sumario:Theeuwes (2018, this issue) argues that the classic dichotomy describing the factors that guide attention (bottom-up and top-down) is inadequate and should be replaced by a trichotomy (bottom-up, top-down, and selection history). In contrast, I argue that top-down is a broad category that comfortably includes selection history. While one can certainly choose to subdivide broad categories, there is no obvious stopping point for such an endeavor; how long can it be before this trichotomy turns into a “quadchotomy”?