Topic: attentional signals

The priority maps framework proposes that attentional priorities are weighted in cognitive/brain maps of the external space. As extensions of saliency maps, a variety of factors known as “attentional signals” would be represented in these so-called priority maps, ranging from low-level features such as physical salience to higher-level features such as social information. According to studies investigating attentional patterns in the presence of social signals, social attentional signals (e.g. faces) would “automatically” overcome the presence of any other signal and win the competition for at