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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Wiley Interdiscip Rev Cogn Sci. 2011 Nov;2(6):634–638. doi: 10.1002/wcs.136

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Schematic diagram of focused and distributed attention modes. In the focused attention mode (the left side), the visual system can individualize, identify, and count each object. In the distributed attention mode (the right side), one can estimate statistical properties of multiple objects without conscious access to each object. Note that attention can be distributed over time as well.