In the context of attention to objects, the research conducted by Egly et al. (1994), involving a variation of the attentional cueing procedure, illustrated that:
A) people can attend to just a part of an object without perceiving the whole object.
B) people cannot attend to both the object and its features at the same time.
C) people can automatically attend to small objects as a whole but cannot attend to larger objects in parts.
D) people can attend to part of an object while at the same time automatically attending to the object as a whole.

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Egly et al. (1994) found that when attention is directed to one part of an object, the other parts of the same object are also processed more efficiently than parts of other objects. This suggests that attention to part of an object automatically extends to the whole object.

In the Context of Attention to Objects, the Research Conducted