Word: objectional
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...look presidential." The comics (Leno, Letterman, Comedy Central) have swarmed all over Gore and Bush, pointing and woofing at the forest of American flags arrayed behind non-presidents and non-vice presidents as they've appeared on television to wheedle and spin. The flag (reverenced as a sacred object during annual flag-burning-bill debates) turns into a cheesy stage prop for the drooling suitors...
...experiments show, he explains, that if an observer looks at the pen and tries to focus only on the "Papermate Fine Point" label and not the rest of the pen, he cannot. The brain perceives the pen as a distinct object and notes all of its properties together--whether people like...
...research that has fleshed out his work over the years has shared one major problem: the objects that the experiments contrasted were in different locations, so the assay could not completely discriminate between the location- and object- based theories of attention...
Finding out lots of information about the same object is easy because objects are the units of visual information, the researchers...
Holcombe, who will soon move to the University of California at San Diego to become a postdoctoral fellow, was amazed by the team's ability to experimentally disconnect object and location...