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spatial attention  

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  • One of the fundamental properties of our environment is that it is composed of a multitude of sensory information. Given such richness of input, humans are faced with the problem of having limited capacity for processing information, on the one hand, and the need to analyze as much of the sensory input as possible, on the other hand. [Source: Encyclopedia of Perception; Attention: Spatial]

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