Visual attention: Spotlights, highlights and visual awareness

Abstract Recent neurophysiological studies reveal both spatial and feature-based processes for directing visual attention; they also suggest ways of analyzing how these processes interact and govern the flow of sensory information to higher cortical centers.

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