The study of visual processing and attention in near-hand space has revealed that the proximity of the hands significantly alters perceptual mechanisms.

The ability to ignore irrelevant peripheral distractors was assessed as a function of the efficiency in visual search for a target at the center of a display. Efficient target search, among dissimilar ...

To find a target object in a crowded scene, a face in a crowd for example, the visual system might turn the neural representation of each object on and off in a serial fashion, testing each ...