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摘要

Serial sampling of information is slow and inefficient. The majority of work in vision science over the past twenty years has focused on describing the elegant work of parallel processing systems in the brain, especially with respect to problems like object recognition. Sometimes, however, the slow and steady win the race. Serial sampling may solve segregation and individuation problems that parallel processes cannot, therefore a role for serial mechanisms may be crucial for understanding the selective mechanisms of the mind. Holcombe and Chen have argued strongly in their recent paper for a serial theory of visual attention that processes information about moving objects with a periodicity that is dependent upon load.