Talk:Attentional shift

Can't be serious[edit]

"The environment around us is full of various objects, features and scenes that compete for our attention."

Hah; no. Our neurons are decoding information and selecting which signals to send down an axon, and which to not. Objects do not magically hack or tap into our brain to eat up attention. In fact, the information in our brains concerning objects is distant from realities, though we do try to get the story (meme) right. This opening sentence will cause the reader to picture objects as jumping up and down yelling "Pick me! Pick me! Pay attention to ME!" is absurd pseudoscience. -- kanzure 04:57, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

-Well, I agree somewhat with that sentiment. However, your statement that neurons 'decode' information is similarly misleading. Not to mention the suggestion that neurons 'select' anything. This opening sentence will cause the reader to picture neurons as little hommunculi possesed of their own sentience. It is perhaps more accurate to state that the physiological activity of neurons itself is the information. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.187.108.235 (talk) 14:53, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Walk into a room in which you haven't been before, preferably containing many items, and try not look at anything. You might understand the above quote. 121.220.129.208 (talk) 16:00, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

A quote from Corbetta and Shulman 2002 (Nat Reviews Neuro) might help clear up this debate: "Cognition aids vision by enabling the brain to create, maintain and change a representation of what is important while we scan a visual scene." MBVECO (talk) 01:11, 11 December 2009 (UTC)MBVECO[reply]

Please don't merge with article Attention[edit]

Neural mechanisms behind shifts of attention is a very informative article on a very specific topic, it deserves to be indpendant. So I suggest not to merge it with the generic article Attention

DhananSekhar (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 09:40, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I agree. Don't merge, but create wikilinks in other articles to this page so it is easer to find. Lova Falk (talk) 14:51, 26 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]