Melinda Ring, Elaine Cheung, Rupa Mahadevan, Stephanie Folkens, Neilé Edens
Cooking Up Health: A Novel Culinary Medicine and Service Learning Elective for Health Professional Students
Journal of alternative and complementary medicine (New York, N.Y.)
visual attention refers human brains ability select relevant sensory information preferential processing improving performance visual cognitive tasks proceeds two phases one visual feature maps acquired processed parallel another information maps merged order select single location attended complex computations reasoning computational description challenging especially temporal dynamics process taken account numerous methods estimate saliency proposed last 3 decades achieve almost perfect performance estimating saliency pixel level way generate shifts visual attention fully depends winnertakeall wta circuitry wta implemented biological hardware order select location maximum saliency towards direct overt attention paper propose gravitational model describe attentional shifts every single feature acts attractor shifts result joint effects attractors current framework assumption single centralized saliency map longer necessary though still plausible quantitative results two large image datasets show model predicts shifts accurately winnertakeall