Research on visual attention has uncovered significant anomalies, and some traditional methods may have inadvertently probed peripheral vision rather than attention. Vision science needs to rethink visual attention from the ground up. To facilitate this, for a year I banned the word “attention” in my lab. This constraint promoted a more precise discussion of attention-related phenomena, capacity limits, and mechanisms. The insights gained lead me to challenge attributing to “attention” those phenomena that can be better explained by perceptual processes, are predictable by an ideal observer model, or that otherwise may not require an additional mechanism. I enumerate a set of critical phenomena in need of explanation. Finally, I propose a unifying theory in which all perception results from performing a task, and tasks face a limit on complexity.

Ruth Rosenholtz

Behavioral and Brain Sciences

BBS 是国际知名期刊，采用开放同行评论的创新格式。心理学、神经科学、行为生物学或认知科学的任何领域的研究人员发表了特别重要和有争议的作品，以及这些学科内和跨学科专家对每篇文章的 10-25 条评论，以及作者对它们的回应. 结果是一个引人入胜的独特论坛，用于交流、批评、刺激，特别是从分子神经生物学到人工智能和心灵哲学的行为和脑科学研究的统一。

Behavioral and Brain Sciences is an internationally renowned journal that employs an innovative open peer review format. Researchers from fields such as psychology, neuroscience, behavioral biology, and cognitive science publish particularly significant and controversial works here. Each article receives 10 to 25 comments from experts within and across disciplines, to which the authors respond. The result is an engaging and unique forum for communication, critique, and stimulation, particularly in the unified study of behavioral and brain sciences, ranging from molecular neurobiology to artificial intelligence and philosophy of mind.

《Behavioral and Brain Sciences》是一本国际知名的期刊，采用开放同行评审的创新格式。心理学、神经科学、行为生物学和认知科学等领域的研究人员在此发表特别重要和有争议的研究成果。每篇文章都会收到10到25条来自该领域内及跨学科专家的评论，作者也会对此进行回应。最终形成了一个引人入胜的独特论坛，促进了从分子神经生物学到人工智能和心灵哲学等领域的行为与脑科学研究的交流与批评。

Behav Brain Sci

Visual Attention in Crisis

视觉注意力的研究揭示了显著的异常现象，一些传统方法可能无意中探索了周边视觉而非注意力本身。视觉科学需要从根本上重新思考视觉注意力。为此，我在实验室中禁止使用“注意力”一词长达一年。这一限制促进了关于注意力相关现象、容量限制及机制的更为精确的讨论。由此获得的洞见使我质疑将那些更宜由感知过程解释、可由理想观察者模型预测或无需额外机制的现象归因于“注意力”的做法。我列举了一系列亟待解释的关键现象。最后，我提出一个统一理论，即所有感知均源于执行任务，而任务面临复杂性限制。

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