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Even feature integration is cognitively impenetrable

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1999

Dale J. Cohen
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington, NC 28403 cohend@uncwil.edu www.uncwiledu/people/cohend/
Michael Kubovy
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903 kubovy@virginia.edu www.virginia.edu/~mklab/kubovy

Abstract

Pylyshyn is willing to assume that attention can influence feature integration. We argue that he concedes too much. Feature integration occurs preattentively, except in the case of certain “perverse” displays, such as those used in feature-conjunction searches.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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