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Carolyn Suchy-Dicey

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Re-thinking the active-passive distinction in attention from a philosophical viewpoint

Journal of Vision August 3, 2010 Carolyn Suchy-Dicey, Takeo Watanabe 17 citations

Whether active and passive, top-down and bottom-up, or endogenous and exogenous, attention is typically divided into two types. To show the relationship between attention and other functions (sleep, memory, learning), one needs to show whether the type of attention in question is of the active or passive variety. However, the division between active and passive is not sharp in any area of...