Perhaps, attention and visual search first process basic visual features preattentively and automatically and then use attention to associate features with objects and find higher level properties {feature integration theory}. Attention integrates or selects basic features such as color and orientation [Chun and Wolfe, 1996] [Driver and Baylis, 1998] [Duncan, 1984] [Jolicoeur et al., 1986] [Kanwisher and Driver, 1997] [Rock and Gutman, 1981] [Wolfe, 1994] [Wolfe, 1999].
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