ABSTRACT
Computational modeling of spatial attention Michael C. Mozer and Mark Sitton University of Colorado, USA
INTRODUCTION
If we had really huge brains, say the size of watermelons, attention would play a much smaller role in our behavior. Its significance stems primarily from limitations in our processing hardware. We simply do not have suf ficient brain capacity to analyze all information that passes through our sense organs, to reason exhaustively about all possible courses of action, and to maintain multiple interpretations of the world. Attentional selection is needed to determine what information will be processed by the available hardware.
