Is there more to visual attention than meets the eye?

Journal/Book: Behav Brain Sci. 1999; 22: 40 West 20Th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA. Cambridge Univ Press. 690+.

Abstract: Models of saccade generation and visual selective attention must explain how and why particular targets are selected. Findlay & Walker do an excellent job of explaining the how of visual selection, hut not the why. For a salience map eo be more than a description of the relative importance of potential targets, there must be some account of the learning and inheritance that fashion its peeks and troughs. Point of gaze is not necessarily region of attention, and it may be premature to downgrade the role of covert attention in models of visual selection.

Note: Editorial Latimer C, Univ Sydney, Dept Psychol, Sydney, NSW 2006, AUSTRALIA

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