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Although this theory runs
contrary to the common
impression that we effortlessly
see a red triangle as a unified
object, contemporary brain
research supports the
"separability"hypothesis.
Increasingly in recent years
brain researchers, such as
Semir Zeki in England and
Charles Gross at Princeton,
have uncovered perceptual
regions in the visual cortex
that seem to process only a
single feature, so that we might
justifiably refer to separate
neural processing centers for
color, motion, orientation, and
the like. Thus it might be
correct to suggest, as Treisman
once did, that attention is the
"glue" that binds the features
of an object together and that
without this attentional "glue"
the features might well be
detected but would be "free
floating" and not "attached" to
a specific object in a specific
place.
In 1982 Anne Treisman and
Hillary Schmidt made a
dramatic discovery that
directly supported this
theoretical view. Subjects in an
experiment were shown
simultaneously several items,
each a geometrical shape of a
given color. When the display
was presented very briefly,
usually under the guise of some
other task, subjects often
reported seeing colored shapes
that were not presented on that
trial. The shape and the color
perceived were both present in
the display, but the two were
not conjoined in any figure
presented. They were what the
investigators called ΓÇ£illusory
conjunctions.ΓÇ¥