Chi-Hung Juan
Dai-Hua Lu
Jia-Rong Liu
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience National Central University/
Laboratories for Cognitive Neuroscience National Yang-Ming University
Chiao-Yun Chen
Laboratories for Cognitive Neuroscience
Institute of Neuroscience National Yang-Ming Unive
The marriage of cognitive psychology and neuroscience makes it possible for researchers to conduct integrative studies on visual attention. In this article, several seminal psychophysical, neruoimaging and neurophysiological theories and studies are reviewed to demonstrate the remarkable achievements of visual attention research in the past decades. This review also indicates that the development in the collaborative researches using complementary neuroimaging techniques will be the future trends of visual selective attention studies.
Keyword: selective attention, visual search, feature integration theory, covert attention, overt attention, Posner’s paradigm, Neural mechanisms of visual attention, Primary Visual Cortex, V1, V4, Frontal Eye Field, FEF