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The more general questions
about the role of attention in
perception are these: What, if
anything, do we perceive prior
to attention, and what role does
attention play once it does
enter into the chain of events
culminating in our perception
and recognition of objects?
Given the welter of stimuli
with which we are bombarded
every moment of our lives, one
would think that some
mechanism would be necessary
to allow us to attend selectively
to certain items and thereby to
remember them as well.
To try to answer questions
about the role of attention, a
favored experimental paradigm
has been to present subjects
with an array of many
elements, such as the "pop out"
figures discussed earlier, and
then try to ascertain how they
perceive the pattern. In the
paradigm illustrated there the
question concerned the
segregation of one region from
the rest of the array, often
called "texture segregation."
The presentation is only
milliseconds long and is often
followed by a patterned "mask,"
which stops further processing.
In a similar kind of
experiment, only one element
in the array differs from the
others, which are typically
identical. Here the task is to
search for that element. If that
item differs with regard to some
feature, such as color or line
orientation, the search for the
target item is easy, and it is said
to "pop out."