The Feature Integration Theory, a theory of attention developed in 1980 by Anne Treisman and Garry Gelade, suggests that when perceiving a stimuli, features are "registered early, automatically, and in parallel, while objects are identified separately" and at a later stage in processing. The theory has been one of the most influential psychological models of human visual attention.
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