Visual attention: the where, what, how and why of saliency.

Attention influences the processing of visual information even in the earliest areas of primate visual cortex. There is converging evidence that the interaction of bottom-up sensory information and top-down attentional influences creates an integrated saliency map, that is, a topographic representation of relative stimulus strength and behavioral relevance across visual space. This map appears to be distributed across areas of the visual cortex, and is closely linked to the oculomotor system that controls eye movements and orients the gaze to locations in the visual scene characterized by a high salience.

• Publication year

  2003

• Venue

  Current Opinion in Neurobiology

• Publication date

  2003-08-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/S0959-4388(03)00105-3PMID 12965289
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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