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Conventional wisdom says that our eyes are drawn to objects that stand out from the background. But this "magpie theory" of visual attention is wrong, says John Henderson of the UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain. A new study from Henderson's lab shows that attention is drawn to areas of a scene that are "meaningful" instead.
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