The Selective Tuning Model for Visual Attention

Complexity analysis leads to the conclusion that if attention tunes the visual processing architecture task-directed processing is enabled and a solution to signal interference otherwise present in the converging feedforward pathways is provided. Selective tuning takes two forms: spatial selection is realized by inhibition of irrelevant connections; and feature selection is realized by inhibition of the units, which compute irrelevant features. Only a very brief summary is presented here (a more detailed account is in Tsotsos et al.1).

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