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Feature integration theory

Feature integration theory is a theory of attention developed in 1980 by Anne Treisman and Garry Gelade that suggests that when perceiving a stimulus, features are "registered early, automatically, and in parallel, while objects are identified separately" and at a later stage in processing. The theory has been one of the most influential psychological…

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Visual fieldBálint's syndromeParietal lobe
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Visual perceptionIllusory conjunction
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related to Focused attention · 13
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