Much research has focused on the spatial window and topology of visual attention (Brefczynski-Lewis, Datta, Lewis, & DeYoe,
2009; Datta & DeYoe,
2009; Dosher, Liu, Blair, & Lu,
2004; Gandhi, Heeger, & Boynton,
1999; Li, Lu, Tjan, Dosher, & Chu,
2008; Müller, Mollenhauer, Rösler, & Kleinschmidt,
2005; Puckett & DeYoe,
2015; Silver, Ress, & Heeger,
2007; Simola, Stenbacka, & Vanni,
2009). A priori, it is not clear how these findings will transfer to complex naturalistic scenes. Indeed, even in relatively simple synthetic displays, scene interpretation has interesting consequences for how visual attention is expressed neurally (Qiu, Sugihara, & von der Heydt,
2007). The focus of the fMRI attention experiment conducted here was to explore the nature of the interaction of attention and naturalistic scenes and how this could relate to the passive viewing results.