Bound by attention: Bringing rats and humans together

When picking through a basket of fruit, it doesn't seem very difficult to recognize a green pear from a green apple. This is easy, thanks to "feature binding"— a process by which our brain combines all of the specific features of an object and gives us a complete and unified picture of it.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news146229156.html">Bound by attention: Bringing rats and humans together</a></p> <p>When picking through a basket of fruit, it doesn't seem very difficult to recognize a green pear from a green apple. This is easy, thanks to "feature binding"— a process by which our brain combines all of the specific features of an object and gives us a complete and unified picture of it.</p>