Attention and its Role: Theories and Models

Authors

  • Athanasios Drigas N.C.S.R. ‘Demokritos’, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, Net Media Lab
  • Maria Karyotaki N.C.S.R. ‘Demokritos’, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, Net Media Lab

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v14i12.10185

Keywords:

attention, consciousness, attentional control, attentional flexibility

Abstract


Motivation, affect and cognition are interrelated. However, the control of attentional deployment and more specifically, attempting to provide a more complete account of the interactions between the dorsal and ventral processing streams is still a challenge. The interaction between overt and covert attention is particularly important for models concerned with visual search. Further modeling of such interactions can assist to scrutinize many mechanisms, such as saccadic suppression, dynamic remapping of the saliency map and inhibition of return, covert pre-selection of targets for overt saccades and online understanding of complex visual scenes.

Author Biographies

Athanasios Drigas, N.C.S.R. ‘Demokritos’, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, Net Media Lab

A. Drigas is with N.C.S.R. ‘Demokritos’, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, Telecoms Lab - Net Media Lab, Agia Paraskevi, 153 10, Athens, Greece (e-mail: dr@iit.demokritos.gr).

Maria Karyotaki, N.C.S.R. ‘Demokritos’, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, Net Media Lab

M. Karyotaki is with N.C.S.R. ‘Demokritos’, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, Telecoms Lab - Net Media Lab, Agia Paraskevi, 153 10, Athens, Greece (e-mail: karyotakimaria@gmail.com).

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Published

2019-06-27

How to Cite

Drigas, A., & Karyotaki, M. (2019). Attention and its Role: Theories and Models. International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning (iJET), 14(12), pp. 169–182. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijet.v14i12.10185

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