Attention is not a mysterious concentration of psychic ener… - Ulric Neisser

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Attention is not a mysterious concentration of psychic energy; it is simply an allotment of analyzing mechanisms to a limited region of the field. To pay attention to a figure is to make certain analyses of, or certain constructions in, the corresponding part of the icon.

Ulric Neisser

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Ulric Gustav Neisser (December 8, 1928 – February 17, 2012) was a German-born American cognitive psychologist, and Professor at from 1960 to 1983 and at from 1983 to 1988.

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Alternative Names: Ulric Richard Gustav Neisser

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To deal with the whole visual input at once, and make discriminations based on any combination of features in the field, would require too large a brain, or too much "previous experience" to be plausible.

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Cognitive processes surely exist, so it can hardly be unscientific to study them.

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