Kramer A F, Weber T A, Watson S E
Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 61801, USA.
J Exp Psychol Gen. 1997 Mar;126(1):3-13. doi: 10.1037//0096-3445.126.1.3.
S. P. Vecera and M. J. Farah (1994) have addressed the issue of whether visual attention selects objects or locations. They obtained data that they interpreted as evidence for attentional selection of objects from an internal spatially invariant representation. A. F. Kramer, T. A. Weber, and S. E. Watson question this interpretation on both theoretical and empirical grounds. First, the authors suggest that there are other interpretations of the Vecera and Farah data that are consistent with location-mediated selection of objects. Second, they provide data, using the displays employed by Vecera and Farah in conjunction with a postdisplay probe technique, that suggests that attention is directed to the locations of the target objects. The implications of the results for space and object-based attentional selection are discussed.
S. P. 韦塞拉和M. J. 法拉赫（1994年）探讨了视觉注意力是选择物体还是位置这一问题。他们获取的数据被他们解释为从内部空间不变表征中对物体进行注意力选择的证据。A. F. 克莱默、T. A. 韦伯和S. E. 沃森从理论和实证两方面对这一解释提出质疑。首先，作者们认为对韦塞拉和法拉赫的数据还有其他解释，这些解释与通过位置介导的物体选择相一致。其次，他们利用韦塞拉和法拉赫所采用的显示方式并结合显示后探测技术提供了数据，这些数据表明注意力指向目标物体的位置。文中讨论了这些结果对基于空间和物体的注意力选择的影响。
