Our eyes are reporters on the fitness beat, searching for a scoop, looking for intelligence about fitness that is worth decoding. A message, once decoded, typically appears in a standard format. We see the decoded message as an object in space, whose category, shape, location, and orientation inform us how to act to glean the fitness points we need. We gumshoe for fitness on the cheap, attending to just a fraction of the leads on offer. Exogenous cues can grab our attention: depth, flicker, and movement; contrasts in size, color, brightness, or orientation. Endogenous goals can alter the
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