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Science 22 April 2005:
Vol. 308. no. 5721, pp. 503 - 504
DOI: 10.1126/science.1112616
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Perspectives

NEUROSCIENCE:
Watching Single Cells Pay Attention

Jeremy M. Wolfe

Visual search is a task that each of us rapidly and efficiently performs a thousand times a day, from searching for a coffee cup to looking for a face in a crowd. As a society, we have created many artificial and imperfect but critically important search tasks, such as airport baggage screening and routine mammography. In his Perspective, Wolfe discusses new work (Bichot et al.) that provides insights into how the primate brain performs complex visual search tasks, which might shed light on ways to improve the imperfect artificial search tasks on which we all depend.

The author is at the Visual Attention Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. E-mail: wolfe{at}search.bwh.harvard.edu

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