Wegner-Clemens, Kira, Malcolm, George L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4892-5961 and Shomstein, Sarah
(2024)
Predicting attentional allocation in real-world environments: the need to investigate crossmodal semantic guidance.
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Cognitive Science, 15 (3).
ISSN 1939-5078
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Abstract
Real-world environments are multisensory, meaningful, and highly complex. To parse these environments in a highly efficient manner, a subset of this information must be selected both within and across modalities. However, the bulk of attention research has been conducted within sensory modalities, with a particular focus on vision. Visual attention research has made great strides, with over a century of research methodically identifying the underlying mechanisms that allow us to select critical visual information. Spatial attention, attention to features, and object-based attention have all been studied extensively. More recently, research has established semantics (meaning) as a key component to allocating attention in real-world scenes, with the meaning of an item or environment affecting visual attentional selection. However, a full understanding of how semantic information modulates real-world attention requires studying more than vision in isolation. The world provides semantic information across all senses, but with this extra information comes greater complexity. Here, we summarize visual attention (including semantic-based visual attention), crossmodal attention, and argue for the importance of studying crossmodal semantic guidance of attention.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | attention,attentional prioritization,crossmodal attention,semantics,neuroscience(all),psychology(all) ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2800 |
Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology |
UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Developmental Science Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Cognition, Action and Perception |
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Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
Date Deposited: | 08 Dec 2023 01:22 |
Last Modified: | 08 Aug 2024 00:48 |
URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/93911 |
DOI: | 10.1002/wcs.1675 |
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