Visual Attention

Visual attention is a selective process in visual perception that enhances neural processing of attended information by allocating limited cognitive resources to particular spatial locations or objects of behavioral or cognitive relevance.

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Vision Science

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Attention In ReadingAttentional BlinkAttentional CaptureAttentional ControlAttentional FilteringAttentional LoadAttentional SelectionCovert AttentionDevelopment Of Visual AttentionDivided Attention

Publications

35.7K

Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows

Ze Liu, Yutong Lin, Yue Cao et al. · 2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2021 · 30.1K citations

Computing, Computer Science, Computer Vision +16

A feature-integration theory of attention

Anne Treisman, Garry A. Gelade · Cognitive Psychology · 1980 · 12.4K citations

Medicine, Psychology, Vision Science +12

A model of saliency-based visual attention for rapid scene analysis

Laurent Itti, Christof Koch, Ernst Niebur · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 1998 · 11.3K citations

Medicine, Computer Science, Vision Science +14

Orienting of Attention

Michael I. Posner · Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1980 · 9.6K citations

Medicine, Neuroscience, Psychology +14

Effective Approaches to Attention-based Neural Machine Translation

Thang Luong, Hieu Pham, Christopher D. Manning · 2015 · 8.6K citations · Full text

Computing, Computer Science, Natural Language Processing +7

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Jan Theeuwes
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
194 publications · 18.5K citations
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Keith Rayner
University of Massachusetts Amherst, United States
105 publications · 19K citations
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Steven J. Luck
University of California, Davis, United States
91 publications · 20K citations
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Steven A. Hillyard
University of California San Diego, United States
70 publications · 17.6K citations
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Marisa Carrasco
New York University, United States
91 publications · 10.4K citations
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Journal of Experimental Psychology Human Perception & Performance
1.1K publications · 121.4K citations
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Journal of Neuroscience
363 publications · 55.5K citations
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Psychological Science
329 publications · 55.3K citations
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Vision Research
643 publications · 63.2K citations
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Perception & Psychophysics
490 publications · 52.5K citations
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See also Visual Attention
Mechanisms	Covert Attention Alertness Sustained Attention Reflexive Attention Overt Attention Orienting Attention Stimulus Control
Variants	Spatial Attention Covert Attention Object-based Attention Temporal Attention Feature-based Attention Overt Attention Reflexive Attention Pre-attentive Processing
Core Methods	Visual Search Electrophysiology Computational Modeling Eye Movement Monitoring Neurologic Imaging Ovine Neurophysiology Visual Psychophysics Saliency Mapping
Applications	Visual Question Answering Object Detection Image Enhancement Image Captioning Medical Image Analysis Visual Rehabilitation Cognitive Impairment Detection Vision Decoding