# Attention-DEP **Opening (not a real abstract):** Attention is inherently tied to the idea of selection, both in the philosophical and in the psychological literature (James 1890, Chun et al. 2011, Mole 2012, Wu 2014). Selection is perhaps the phenomenologically most salient feature of attention: whenever we attend to a certain stimulus it gets selected from the pool of competing stimuli—we bring that particular stimulus into the centre of our phenomenal field while unattended stimuli fade into the periphery (cf. Watzl 2011). It is no surprise, then, that the metaphysical question ‘What is attention?’ is most often answered by reference to selection or synonymous terms like filters (Broadbent 1958), and spotlights (Logan 1996). That is, according to this ‘Selection View’, the fundamental function of attention is selection: attention is selection for categorical processing (cf. so-called early selectionists, e.g. **Authors:** [[Peter Fazekas]]