spinmatch

Because of the poor resolution of these feature maps, if two objects are close together, then there is the potential that the features from one object may become conjoined with the features of the other object thus creating a percept of an object that did not in fact exist. For example, if the visual scene contains a red vertical bar and a blue horizontal bar then one might see a blue vertical bar and a red horizontal bar. Such inappropriate combinations of features are known as illusory conjunctions. FIT suggests that attention hinders the formation of illusory conjunctions...