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William Prinzmetal
Researcher at University of California, Berkeley
Publications - 49
Citations - 1965
William Prinzmetal is an academic researcher from University of California, Berkeley. The author has contributed to research in topics: Illusory conjunctions & Optical illusion. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 49 publications receiving 1871 citations. Previous affiliations of William Prinzmetal include University of California, Santa Barbara & University of California.
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Attention: Reaction Time and Accuracy Reveal Different Mechanisms.
TL;DR: The authors propose that there are 2 different mechanisms whereby spatial cues capture attention, the voluntary mechanism is the strategic allocation of perceptual resources to the location most likely to contain the target and the involuntary mechanism is a reflexive orienting response that occurs even when the spatial cue does not indicate the probable target location.
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A formal theory of feature binding in object perception
TL;DR: A reexamination of 2 previous studies provided new insights into the role of attention and location information in object perception and a reinterpretation of the deficits in patients who exhibit attentional disorders.
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The Phenomenology of Attention
TL;DR: The effect of attention on perceived brightness and contrast was investigated and it was found that the metaphorical "spotlight" of attention reduces observers' uncertainty about the brightness of a stimulus, but it does not "illuminate" in terms of brightness or contrast.
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Different effects of voluntary and involuntary attention on EEG activity in the gamma band.
TL;DR: The presence of increased gamma responses for the voluntary allocation of attention, and its absence in cases of involuntary capture suggests that the neural mechanisms governing these two types of attention are different.
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Voluntary and involuntary attention have different consequences: The effect of perceptual difficulty
TL;DR: It is proposed that voluntary and involuntary attention affect different mechanisms and have different consequences for performance measured in reaction time and hence are probably caused by different mechanisms.