Atenção visual: Estudos comportamentais da seleção baseada no espaço e no objeto

Abstract

The study of visual attention has become an important topic in cognitive psychology research in the last 30 years. However, many questions about the nature of attention are not well understood. The efforts to understand this cognitive architecture are centered in two great theoretical models on the visual attention: the first model supports that visual attention is allocated on visual space (location-based visual attention) while a second model supports that attention could select the objects representations per se (object-based visual attention). In this review, we pooled important researches about these two seminal models and some questions concerning the human visual attention were examined.