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The relevance of top-down information in the deployment of attention has more and more been emphasized in cognitive psychology. We present recent findings about the dynamic of these processes and also demonstrate that task relevance can be adjusted rapidly by incoming bottom-up information. This adjustment substantially increases performance in a subsequent task. Implications for artificial visual models are discussed.
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Hilkenmeier, F., Tünnermann, J., Scharlau, I. (2009). Early Top-Down Influences in Control of Attention: Evidence from the Attentional Blink. In: Mertsching, B., Hund, M., Aziz, Z. (eds) KI 2009: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. KI 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5803. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04617-9_85
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