Su-Ling Yeh
Department of Psychology National Taiwan University
Jen-Hao Li
Department of Psychology National Taiwan University
This article reviews and comments on important issues of whether focal attention can be allocated to noncontiguous locations in space, and its relationship with the debates on space-based and object-based attention. An ecological view of attentional allocation is proposed.
Keywords: selective attention, space-based, object-based, spotlight model, zoom lens model