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November 30, 2025Behavioral and Brain Sciences0 citations

Attention is doing just fine! Just don’t take it too seriously

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AKArni KristjanssonACAndrey Chetverikov

Key Points

  • Visual attention is essential for processing environmental information, and its functioning is robust.
  • Overemphasis on a singular definition of attention can mislead the field, causing unnecessary concern.
  • Evidence from various studies shows that the brain effectively prioritizes information despite perceived issues.
  • The discourse around visual attention's crisis needs to shift toward understanding its adaptive nature in different contexts.

Abstract

Abstract We do not share Rosenholtz’s central worry that visual attention is in “crisis”. There are many examples of notable progress in understanding how the brain prioritizes and gathers information about the environment where “attention,” as a relatively loose concept, has worked well. We also discuss how focusing on a single definition, the field can be led astray.

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Kristjansson et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/692b94341d383f2b2a37864fhttps://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x25000159
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