ABSTRACT
By now I hopefully have established that the fundamental components of spatial reference frames, namely orientation, origin, sense of direction, and unit size, are all factors that must be taken into account in spatial vision. All are necessary for the representation of spatial reference frames, and there is both neurobiological and cognitive evidence that they are critical for object identification and recognition as well. Although the study of reference frames in object perception has had a long history, studies of how reference frames might guide attention and/or how they are selected have had a very short one. In this chapter I will explore some of what we know about how attention selects locations, resolution, and regions of space and what role spatial reference frames might play in this process.
