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While the importance of attention in perceptual learning is widely recognized, the mechanisms through which it affects learning are poorly understood. Here we show that attentional mechanisms themselves are modified during learning. Attentional suppression of task-irrelevant stimuli becomes more efficient with practice. Attentional learning was found to be stimulus-specific and to persist for several...
Object-based theories of visual attention predict that attempting to direct attention to a particular attribute of a visual object will result in an automatic selection of the whole object, including all of its features. It has been assumed, but not critically tested, that the spreading of attention from one feature to another in this manner, i.e. cross-feature attentional (CFA) effects, takes place...
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