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ECVision indexed and annotated bibliography of cognitive computer vision publications This bibliography was created by Hilary Buxton and Benoit Gaillard, University of Sussex, as part of ECVision Specific Action 8-1 The complete text version of this BibTeX file is available here: ECVision_bibliography.bib Fei Fei Li and Rufin VanRullen and Christof Koch and Pietro Perona Rapid natural scene categorization in the near absence of attention ABSTRACT What can we see when we do not pay attention? It is well known that we can be blind even to major aspects of natural scenes when we attend elsewhere. The only tasks that do not need attention appear to be carried out in the early stages of the visual system. Contrary to this common belief, we report that subjects can rapidly detect animals or vehicles in briefly presented novel natural scenes while simultaneously performing another attentionally demanding task. By comparison, they are unable to discriminate large Ts from Ls, or bisected two-color disks from their mirror images under the same conditions. We conclude that some visual tasks associated with high-level cortical areas may proceed in the near absence of attention.

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