Spontaneous Allocation of Visual Attention and Uniqueness of Stimulus.
The article's introduction reviews developments in this line of study since the opening years of the 20th century, through different hypotheses to do with colour change, or sequential tasks involving both sounds and colors. Some components, as in ideas of what will distract a person from a previous focus, have been learned to have more significant than thought, in the past. In this regard, a contribution is made in helping the reader to see that there can be no simple 'common sense' approach to what actually appear to be complex and still little understood processes. In the study's own experiments, when subjects were asked to recall visual images that had been put before them, a lone flashing or static item would be recalled most reliably, when it was unique in relation to other images.
