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Comment on Theeuwes’s Characterization of Visual Selection Cover

Comment on Theeuwes’s Characterization of Visual Selection

By: Howard Egeth  
Open Access
|May 2018

Abstract

Theeuwes (2018, this issue) argues that the classic dichotomy describing the factors that guide attention (bottom-up and top-down) is inadequate and should be replaced by a trichotomy (bottom-up, top-down, and selection history). In contrast, I argue that top-down is a broad category that comfortably includes selection history. While one can certainly choose to subdivide broad categories, there is no obvious stopping point for such an endeavor; how long can it be before this trichotomy turns into a “quadchotomy”?

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joc.29 | Journal eISSN: 2514-4820
Language: English
Submitted on: Mar 15, 2018
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Accepted on: Mar 21, 2018
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Published on: May 14, 2018
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2018 Howard Egeth, published by Ubiquity Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.