 Whereas bottleneck metaphors have traditionally guided the theories that attempt to locate the cognitive resources that operate only on attended stimuli, it has been spotlight metaphors that have guided the theories that attempt to say which features of a stimulus determine whether attention is being paid to that stimulus at any given moment (e.g., Watchel, 1967; Woodman and Luck, 1999; see Fernandez-Duque and Johnson, 2002, for discussion). The idea suggested by the spotlight metaphor is that a stimulus’s location ultimately determines whether or not that stimulus receives attention: the point here is not to deny that one can pay attention to something on account of it being brightly coloured, or on account of it being interesting. The point is, instead, that one pays attention to brightly coloured or interesting things only by directing one’s attention to the location of those things.