The early/late selection debate is based on a false premise and should be rejected

Other theories have been proposed that also retain the Broadbentian idea that attentional selectivity is the result of capacity limitations, while retreating further than Lavie from the picture of attention that Broadbent introduced. These theories reject the terms of the debate between early and late selectionists because they reject the idea that the capacity limitations responsible for attention are clustered into a single bottleneck. In some cases this is because the selectivity of attention