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Frugarello P, Rusconi E, Job R. The label-feedback effect is influenced by target category in visual search. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0306736. [PMID: 39088399 PMCID: PMC11293709 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0306736] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2024] [Accepted: 06/22/2024] [Indexed: 08/03/2024] Open
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The label-feedback hypothesis states that language can modulate visual processing. In particular, hearing or reading aloud target names (labels) speeds up performance in visual search tasks by facilitating target detection and such advantage is often measured against a condition where the target name is shown visually (i.e. via the same modality as the search task). The current study conceptually complements and expands previous investigations. The effect of a multimodal label presentation (i.e., an audio+visual, AV, priming label) in a visual search task is compared to that of a multimodal (i.e. white noise+visual, NV, label) and two unimodal (i.e. audio, A, label or visual, V, label) control conditions. The name of a category (i.e. a label at the superordinate level) is used as a cue, instead of the more commonly used target name (a basic level label), with targets belonging to one of three categories: garments, improper weapons, and proper weapons. These categories vary for their structure, improper weapons being an ad hoc category (i.e. context-dependent), unlike proper weapons and garments. The preregistered analysis shows an overall facilitation of visual search performance in the AV condition compared to the NV condition, confirming that the label-feedback effect may not be explained away by the effects of multimodal stimulation only and that it extends to superordinate labels. Moreover, exploratory analyses show that such facilitation is driven by the garments and proper weapons categories, rather than improper weapons. Thus, the superordinate label-feedback effect is modulated by the structural properties of a category. These findings are consistent with the idea that the AV condition prompts an "up-regulation" of the label, a requirement for enhancing the label's beneficial effects, but not when the label refers to an ad hoc category. They also highlight the peculiar status of the category of improper weapons and set it apart from that of proper weapons.
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- Paolo Frugarello
- Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Rovereto (Trento), Italy
- Centre of Security and Crime Sciences, University of Trento – University of Verona, Trento, Italy
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- Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Rovereto (Trento), Italy
- Centre of Security and Crime Sciences, University of Trento – University of Verona, Trento, Italy
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- Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Trento, Rovereto (Trento), Italy
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Adamian N, Cavanagh P. Sustained attention and the flash grab effect. J Vis 2024; 24:6. [PMID: 38381425 PMCID: PMC10893896 DOI: 10.1167/jov.24.2.6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2023] [Accepted: 01/06/2024] [Indexed: 02/22/2024] Open
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When a stationary target is briefly presented on top of a moving background as it reverses direction, the target is displaced perceptually in the direction of the upcoming motion (the flash grab effect). To determine the role of attention in this effect, we investigated whether the predictability of the location of the flash grab target modulates the illusion. First, we established that effect was weaker for spatially predictable targets. Next, we showed that the flash grab effect decreased for a narrower spatial spread of attention before the onset of the target and that it was smaller for left hemifield presentations than right. Finally, we demonstrated that diverting attention away from the target and the background motion decreases the flash grab effect. In the first two experiments, the decrease in the illusion could be attributed to either increased attention to the target or decreased attention to the motion; we assume that increasing attention to the target necessarily decreases attention to the motion. However, in the final experiment, the central task decreases attention to both the target and the motion. The results show a decrease in the illusion and that reveals that attention to the motion is the primary causal factor.
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- Nika Adamian
- School of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, Old Aberdeen, UK
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- Department of Psychology, Glendon College, CVR York University, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Werth R. Dyslexia Due to Visual Impairments. Biomedicines 2023; 11:2559. [PMID: 37760998 PMCID: PMC10526907 DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines11092559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2023] [Revised: 08/28/2023] [Accepted: 09/01/2023] [Indexed: 09/29/2023] Open
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Reading involves many different abilities that are necessary or sufficient conditions for fluent and flawless reading. The absence of one necessary or of all sufficient conditions is a cause of dyslexia. The present study investigates whether too short fixation times and an impaired ability to recognize a string of letters simultaneously are causes of dyslexia. The frequency and types of reading mistakes were investigated in a tachistoscopic pseudoword experiment with 100 children with dyslexia to test the impact of too short fixation times and the attempts of children with dyslexia to recognize more letters simultaneously than they can when reading pseudowords. The experiment demonstrates that all types of reading mistakes disappear when the fixation time increases and/or the number of letters that the children try to recognize simultaneously is reduced. The results cannot be interpreted as being due to altered visual crowding, impaired attention, or impaired phonological awareness, but can be regarded as an effect of impaired temporal summation and a dysfunction in the ventral stream of the visual system.
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- Reinhard Werth
- Institute for Social Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Haydnstr. 5, D-80336 München, Germany
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Werth R. Dyslexia: Causes and Concomitant Impairments. Brain Sci 2023; 13:brainsci13030472. [PMID: 36979282 PMCID: PMC10046374 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci13030472] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2023] [Revised: 02/07/2023] [Accepted: 03/06/2023] [Indexed: 03/12/2023] Open
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In recent decades, theories have been presented to explain the nature of dyslexia, but the causes of dyslexia remained unclear. Although the investigation of the causes of dyslexia presupposes a clear understanding of the concept of cause, such an understanding is missing. The present paper proposes the absence of at least one necessary condition or the absence of all sufficient conditions as causes for impaired reading. The causes of impaired reading include: an incorrect fixation location, too short a fixation time, the attempt to recognize too many letters simultaneously, too large saccade amplitudes, and too short verbal reaction times. It is assumed that a longer required fixation time in dyslexic readers results from a functional impairment of areas V1, V2, and V3 that require more time to complete temporal summation. These areas and areas that receive input from them, such as the fusiform gyrus, are assumed to be impaired in their ability to simultaneously process a string of letters. When these impairments are compensated by a new reading strategy, reading ability improves immediately.
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- Reinhard Werth
- Institute for Social Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Haydnstr. 5, D-80336 München, Germany
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Kaur G, Anand R, Chakrabarty M. Trait Anxiety Influences Negative Affect-modulated Distribution of Visuospatial Attention. Neuroscience 2023; 509:145-156. [PMID: 36493911 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2022.11.034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/03/2022] [Revised: 11/25/2022] [Accepted: 11/28/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Visuospatial attention allows humans to selectively gate and prioritize visual (including salient, emotional) information for efficiently navigating natural visual environments. As emotions have been known to influence attentional performance, we asked if emotions also modulate the spatial distribution of visual attention and whether any such effect was further associated with individual differences in anxiety. Participants (n = 28) discriminated the orientation of target Gabor patches co-presented with distractors, speedily and accurately. The key manipulation was randomly presenting a task-irrelevant face emotion prime briefly (50 ms), conveying Neutral/Disgust/Scrambled (Null) emotion signal 150 ms preceding the target patches. We calculated attention gradient (change in negative inverse attentional efficiency with unit change in distance from the source of emotion signal) as a metric to answer our questions. Specifically, the Disgust signal modulated the direction of attention gradients differentially in individuals with varying degrees of trait - anxiety, such that the gradients correlated negatively with individual trait-anxiety scores. This implies spatial shifts in Disgust-signalled visual attention with varying trait - anxiety levels. Neutral yielded attention gradients comparable to Scrambled, implying no specific effect of this signal and there was no association with anxiety levels in both. No correlation was observed between state - anxiety and the emotion-cued attention gradients. In sum, the results suggest that individual trait - anxiety levels influence the effect of negative and physiologically arousing emotion signals (e.g., Disgust) on the spatial distribution of visual attention. The findings could be of relevance for understanding biases in visual behaviour underlying affective states and disorders.
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- Gursimran Kaur
- Dept. of Social Sciences and Humanities, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, New Delhi 110020, India
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- Dept. of Human-Centered Design, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, New Delhi 110020, India
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- Dept. of Social Sciences and Humanities, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, New Delhi 110020, India.
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Kanamori T, Mrsic-Flogel TD. Independent response modulation of visual cortical neurons by attentional and behavioral states. Neuron 2022; 110:3907-3918.e6. [PMID: 36137550 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2022.08.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2022] [Revised: 06/15/2022] [Accepted: 08/30/2022] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Sensory processing is influenced by cognitive and behavioral states, but how these states interact to modulate responses of individual neurons is unknown. We trained mice in a visual discrimination task wherein they attended to different locations within a hemifield while running or sitting still, enabling us to examine how visual responses are modulated by spatial attention and running behavior. We found that spatial attention improved discrimination performance and strengthened visual responses of excitatory neurons in the primary visual cortex whose receptive fields overlapped with the attended location. Although individual neurons were modulated by both spatial attention and running, the magnitudes of these influences were not correlated. While running-dependent modulation was stable across days, attentional modulation was dynamic, influencing individual neurons to different degrees after repeated changes in attentional states. Thus, despite similar effects on neural responses, spatial attention and running act independently with different dynamics, implying separable mechanisms for their implementation.
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- Takahiro Kanamori
- Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University College London, 25 Howland Street, London W1T 4JG, UK.
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- Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour, University College London, 25 Howland Street, London W1T 4JG, UK.
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Inter-individual variations in internal noise predict the effects of spatial attention. Cognition 2021; 217:104888. [PMID: 34450395 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104888] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/14/2021] [Revised: 07/30/2021] [Accepted: 08/19/2021] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Individuals differ considerably in the degree to which they benefit from attention allocation. Thus far, such individual differences were attributed to post-perceptual factors such as working-memory capacity. This study examined whether a perceptual factor - the level of internal noise - also contributes to this inter-individual variability in attentional effects. To that end, we estimated individual levels of internal noise from behavioral variability in an orientation discrimination task (with tilted gratings) using the double-pass procedure and the perceptual-template model. We also measured the effects of spatial attention in an acuity task: the participants reported the side of a square on which a small aperture appeared. Central arrows were used to engage sustained attention and peripheral cues to engage transient attention. We found reliable correlations between individual levels of internal noise and the effects of both types of attention, albeit of opposite directions: positive correlation with sustained attention and negative correlation with transient attention. These findings demonstrate that internal noise - a fundamental characteristic of visual perception - can predict individual differences in the effects of spatial attention, highlighting the intricate relations between perception and attention.
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Dyslexic Readers Improve without Training When Using a Computer-Guided Reading Strategy. Brain Sci 2021; 11:brainsci11050526. [PMID: 33919235 PMCID: PMC8143180 DOI: 10.3390/brainsci11050526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/2021] [Revised: 04/16/2021] [Accepted: 04/18/2021] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Background: Flawless reading presupposes the ability to simultaneously recognize a sequence of letters, to fixate words at a given location for a given time, to exert eye movements of a given amplitude, and to retrieve phonems rapidly from memory. Poor reading performance may be due to an impairment of at least one of these abilities. Objectives: It was investigated whether reading performance of dyslexic children can be improved by changing the reading strategy without any previous training. Methods: 60 dyslexic German children read a text without and with the help of a computer. A tailored computer program subdivided the text into segments that consisted of no more letters than the children could simultaneously recognize, indicated the location in the segments to which the gaze should be directed, indicated how long the gaze should be directed to each segment, which reading saccades the children should execute, and when the children should pronounce the segments. The computer aided reading was not preceded by any training. Results: It was shown that the rate of reading mistakes dropped immediately by 69.97% if a computer determined the reading process. Computer aided reading reached the highest effect size of Cohen d = 2.649. Conclusions: The results show which abilities are indispensable for reading, that the impairment of at least one of the abilities leads to reading deficiencies that are diagnosed as dyslexia, and that a computer-guided, altered reading strategy immediately reduces the rate of reading mistakes. There was no evidence that dyslexia is due to a lack of eye movement control or reduced visual attention.
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Cao S, Zhang J, Wang Z, Pan W, Tian Y, Hu P, Wei Q, Wang J, Shi X, Wang K. Laterality of Attentional Networks in Patients With Cerebral Small Vessel Disease. Front Aging Neurosci 2020; 12:21. [PMID: 32265683 PMCID: PMC7098913 DOI: 10.3389/fnagi.2020.00021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2019] [Accepted: 01/21/2020] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Introduction: Problems with attention are common in patients with cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD). The normal human brain exhibits functional and structural asymmetry. However, it is unknown whether there is lateralization of attention in patients with CSVD. Objective: This study aims to investigate attention separately in both cerebral hemispheres in patients with CSVD using the computer-based Lateralized Attention Network Test—Revised (LANT-R). Methods: The total number of subjects included was 58, which includes the CSVD (N = 35) and healthy control (HC, N = 23) groups. All subjects completed the LANT-R paradigm and neuropsychological background tests. Results: The results indicate that there is an left hemisphere (LH) lateralization in orienting network efficiency in the HC group. However, this lateralization was not apparent in the CSVD group. Furthermore, the difference between groups was significant (interaction P = 0.02). In addition, the scores of subjects in the CSVD group are lower in several cognitive domains, including attention function, memory function, information processing speed, and executive function, compared with the controls. Conclusion: Patients with CSVD change in the lateralization of attention compared with the normal elderly. The decrease in attention in patients with CSVD might be caused by the reduced ability of selecting useful information in the LH.
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- Shanshan Cao
- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, China
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- Department of Neurology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center of Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Mental Health, Hefei, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center of Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Mental Health, Hefei, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center of Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Mental Health, Hefei, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China
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- Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.,Anhui Province Key Laboratory of Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, Hefei, China.,Collaborative Innovation Center of Neuropsychiatric Disorders and Mental Health, Hefei, China
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Szinte M, Puntiroli M, Deubel H. The spread of presaccadic attention depends on the spatial configuration of the visual scene. Sci Rep 2019; 9:14034. [PMID: 31575909 PMCID: PMC6773758 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-50541-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/23/2018] [Accepted: 09/11/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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When preparing a saccade, attentional resources are focused at the saccade target and its immediate vicinity. Here we show that this does not hold true when saccades are prepared toward a recently extinguished target. We obtained detailed maps of orientation sensitivity when participants prepared a saccade toward a target that either remained on the screen or disappeared before the eyes moved. We found that attention was mainly focused on the immediate surround of the visible target and spread to more peripheral locations as a function of the distance from the cue and the delay between the target's disappearance and the saccade. Interestingly, this spread was not accompanied with a spread of the saccade endpoint. These results suggest that presaccadic attention and saccade programming are two distinct processes that can be dissociated as a function of their interaction with the spatial configuration of the visual scene.
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- Martin Szinte
- Institut de Neurosciences de la Timone, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 7289, Marseille, 13005, France. .,Spinoza Centre for Neuroimaging, Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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- Institute of Management, Université de Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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- Allgemeine und Experimentelle Psychologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany
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Phu J, Kalloniatis M, Khuu SK. Reducing Spatial Uncertainty Through Attentional Cueing Improves Contrast Sensitivity in Regions of the Visual Field With Glaucomatous Defects. Transl Vis Sci Technol 2018; 7:8. [PMID: 29600116 PMCID: PMC5868861 DOI: 10.1167/tvst.7.2.8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2017] [Accepted: 01/21/2018] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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Purpose Current clinical perimetric test paradigms present stimuli randomly to various locations across the visual field (VF), inherently introducing spatial uncertainty, which reduces contrast sensitivity. In the present study, we determined the extent to which spatial uncertainty affects contrast sensitivity in glaucoma patients by minimizing spatial uncertainty through attentional cueing. Methods Six patients with open-angle glaucoma and six healthy subjects underwent laboratory-based psychophysical testing to measure contrast sensitivity at preselected locations at two eccentricities (9.5° and 17.5°) with two stimulus sizes (Goldmann sizes III and V) under different cueing conditions: 1, 2, 4, or 8 points verbally cued. Method of Constant Stimuli and a single-interval forced-choice procedure were used to generate frequency of seeing (FOS) curves at locations with and without VF defects. Results At locations with VF defects, cueing minimizes spatial uncertainty and improves sensitivity under all conditions. The effect of cueing was maximal when one point was cued, and rapidly diminished when more points were cued (no change to baseline with 8 points cued). The slope of the FOS curve steepened with reduced spatial uncertainty. Locations with normal sensitivity in glaucomatous eyes had similar performance to that of healthy subjects. There was a systematic increase in uncertainty with the depth of VF loss. Conclusions Sensitivity measurements across the VF are negatively affected by spatial uncertainty, which increases with greater VF loss. Minimizing uncertainty can improve sensitivity at locations of deficit. Translational Relevance Current perimetric techniques introduce spatial uncertainty and may therefore underestimate sensitivity in regions of VF loss.
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- Jack Phu
- Centre for Eye Health, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, Australia.,School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, Australia
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- Centre for Eye Health, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, Australia.,School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, Australia
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- School of Optometry and Vision Science, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW, Australia
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The spatial distribution of visual attention is a yet unresolved question. One of the main topics is whether attention is distributed in a graded fashion around an attended location (e.g., Downing, 1988; Zimba & Hughes, 1987). The present experiments explore whether, and on which conditions, gradients of attention arise and contribute to perceptual facilitation. A masked or unmasked prime precedes one of two targets whose temporal order has to be judged. The prime captures attention, which shortens the perceptual latency of the primed target (perceptual latency priming; Scharlau & Neumann, 2003a; Shore, Spence, & Klein, 2001). No strong evidence for an attentional gradient was found. (1) Accuracy of temporal order judgements was independent of the distance between the two targets that were judged. That is, facilitation of the second target by the first target was spatially invariant. (2) With targets of short duration, facilitation was independent of prime-target distance. (3) With targets of long duration, gradients were found: Facilitation declined continuously with distance. Thus, long duration of stimuli may be a sufficient precondition for an attentional gradient. A control experiment showed that object-based attention contributes only marginally to perceptual latency priming.
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- Ingrid Scharlau
- Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, PO Box 10-01-31, D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany.
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Voytek B, Samaha J, Rolle CE, Greenberg Z, Gill N, Porat S, Kader T, Rahman S, Malzyner R, Gazzaley A. Preparatory Encoding of the Fine Scale of Human Spatial Attention. J Cogn Neurosci 2017; 29:1302-1310. [PMID: 28294717 DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_01124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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Our attentional focus is constantly shifting: In one moment, our attention may be intently concentrated on a specific spot, whereas in another moment we might spread our attention more broadly. Although much is known about the mechanisms by which we shift our visual attention from place to place, relatively little is known about how we shift the aperture of attention from more narrowly to more broadly focused. Here we introduce a novel attentional distribution task to examine the neural mechanisms underlying this process. In this task, participants are presented with an informative cue that indicates the location of an upcoming target. This cue can be perfectly predictive of the exact target location, or it can indicate-with varying degrees of certainty-approximately where the target might appear. This cue is followed by a preparatory period in which there is nothing on the screen except a central fixation cross. Using scalp EEG, we examined neural activity during this preparatory period. We find that, with decreasing certainty regarding the precise location of the impending target, participant RTs increased whereas target identification accuracy decreased. Additionally, the multivariate pattern of preparatory period visual cortical alpha (8-12 Hz) activity encoded attentional distribution. This alpha encoding was predictive of behavioral accuracy and RT nearly 1 sec later. These results offer insight into the neural mechanisms underlying how we use information to guide our attentional distribution and how that influences behavior.
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- Bradley Voytek
- 1 University of California, San Francisco.,2 University of California, San Diego
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- 1 University of California, San Francisco.,3 University of Wisconsin-Madison
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- 1 University of California, San Francisco
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Selective visual attention describes the tendency of visual processing to be confined largely to stimuli that are relevant to behavior. It is among the most fundamental of cognitive functions, particularly in humans and other primates for whom vision is the dominant sense. We review recent progress in identifying the neural mechanisms of selective visual attention. We discuss evidence from studies of different varieties of selective attention and examine how these varieties alter the processing of stimuli by neurons within the visual system, current knowledge of their causal basis, and methods for assessing attentional dysfunctions. In addition, we identify some key questions that remain in identifying the neural mechanisms that give rise to the selective processing of visual information.
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- Tirin Moore
- Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305; , .,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford, California 94305
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- Department of Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305; , .,Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford, California 94305
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Handy TC, Jha AP, Mangun GR. Promoting Novelty in Vision: Inhibition of Return Modulates Perceptual-Level Processing. Psychol Sci 2016. [DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.00124] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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To facilitate visual search of complex scenes, information arising from recently attended locations is subject to a selective inhibition in processing known as inhibition of return (IOR). Although the mechanisms of IOR remain unresolved, both motor and perceptual influences have been proposed based on reaction time (RT) studies. Here we report the results of two reflexive cuing studies in which signal detection methodology was employed to directly examine the effects of IOR on perception. IOR was found to be associated with a significant reduction in the accuracy of target discriminations at recently attended locations. Further, these effects of IOR on response accuracy were independent of whether emphasis was placed on the speed of responding. These results provide the first direct evidence that IOR can affect the perceptual quality of visual processing.
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- Todd C. Handy
- Department of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis
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- Department of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis
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- Department of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience, University of California, Davis
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Mock JR, Seay MJ, Charney DR, Holmes JL, Golob EJ. Rapid cortical dynamics associated with auditory spatial attention gradients. Front Neurosci 2015; 9:179. [PMID: 26082679 PMCID: PMC4451343 DOI: 10.3389/fnins.2015.00179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2015] [Accepted: 05/04/2015] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Behavioral and EEG studies suggest spatial attention is allocated as a gradient in which processing benefits decrease away from an attended location. Yet the spatiotemporal dynamics of cortical processes that contribute to attentional gradients are unclear. We measured EEG while participants (n = 35) performed an auditory spatial attention task that required a button press to sounds at one target location on either the left or right. Distractor sounds were randomly presented at four non-target locations evenly spaced up to 180° from the target location. Attentional gradients were quantified by regressing ERP amplitudes elicited by distractors against their spatial location relative to the target. Independent component analysis was applied to each subject's scalp channel data, allowing isolation of distinct cortical sources. Results from scalp ERPs showed a tri-phasic response with gradient slope peaks at ~300 ms (frontal, positive), ~430 ms (posterior, negative), and a plateau starting at ~550 ms (frontal, positive). Corresponding to the first slope peak, a positive gradient was found within a central component when attending to both target locations and for two lateral frontal components when contralateral to the target location. Similarly, a central posterior component had a negative gradient that corresponded to the second slope peak regardless of target location. A right posterior component had both an ipsilateral followed by a contralateral gradient. Lateral posterior clusters also had decreases in α and β oscillatory power with a negative slope and contralateral tuning. Only the left posterior component (120-200 ms) corresponded to absolute sound location. The findings indicate a rapid, temporally-organized sequence of gradients thought to reflect interplay between frontal and parietal regions. We conclude these gradients support a target-based saliency map exhibiting aspects of both right-hemisphere dominance and opponent process models.
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- Jeffrey R Mock
- Department of Psychology, Tulane University New Orleans, LA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Tulane University New Orleans, LA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Tulane University New Orleans, LA, USA
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- Department of Psychology, Tulane University New Orleans, LA, USA ; Program in Neuroscience, Tulane University New Orleans, LA, USA ; Program in Aging, Tulane University New Orleans, LA, USA
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Wang L, Krasich K, Bel-Bahar T, Hughes L, Mitroff SR, Appelbaum LG. Mapping the structure of perceptual and visual-motor abilities in healthy young adults. Acta Psychol (Amst) 2015; 157:74-84. [PMID: 25747573 DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2015.02.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2014] [Revised: 02/05/2015] [Accepted: 02/10/2015] [Indexed: 01/13/2023] Open
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The ability to quickly detect and respond to visual stimuli in the environment is critical to many human activities. While such perceptual and visual-motor skills are important in a myriad of contexts, considerable variability exists between individuals in these abilities. To better understand the sources of this variability, we assessed perceptual and visual-motor skills in a large sample of 230 healthy individuals via the Nike SPARQ Sensory Station, and compared variability in their behavioral performance to demographic, state, sleep and consumption characteristics. Dimension reduction and regression analyses indicated three underlying factors: Visual-Motor Control, Visual Sensitivity, and Eye Quickness, which accounted for roughly half of the overall population variance in performance on this battery. Inter-individual variability in Visual-Motor Control was correlated with gender and circadian patters such that performance on this factor was better for males and for those who had been awake for a longer period of time before assessment. The current findings indicate that abilities involving coordinated hand movements in response to stimuli are subject to greater individual variability, while visual sensitivity and occulomotor control are largely stable across individuals.
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Stored color–form knowledge modulates perceptual sensitivity in search. Atten Percept Psychophys 2015; 77:1223-38. [DOI: 10.3758/s13414-015-0853-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The topographical N170: Electrophysiological evidence of a neural mechanism for human spatial navigation. Biol Psychol 2013; 94:90-105. [DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2013.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2012] [Revised: 05/02/2013] [Accepted: 05/03/2013] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Lauwereyns J. Exogenous/Endogenous Control of Space-based/ Object-based Attention: Four Types of Visual Selection? ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2010. [DOI: 10.1080/713752264] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Modulation of the contrast response function by electrical microstimulation of the macaque frontal eye field. J Neurosci 2009; 29:10683-94. [PMID: 19710320 DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.0673-09.2009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Spatial attention influences representations in visual cortical areas as well as perception. Some models predict a contrast gain, whereas others a response or activity gain when attention is directed to a contrast-varying stimulus. Recent evidence has indicated that microstimulating the frontal eye field (FEF) can produce modulations of cortical area V4 neuronal firing rates that resemble spatial attention-like effects, and we have shown similar modulations of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) activity throughout the visual system. Here, we used fMRI in awake, fixating monkeys to first measure the response in 12 visual cortical areas to stimuli of varying luminance contrast. Next, we simultaneously microstimulated subregions of the FEF with movement fields that overlapped the stimulus locations and measured how microstimulation modulated these contrast response functions (CRFs) throughout visual cortex. In general, we found evidence for a nonproportional scaling of the CRF under these conditions, resembling a contrast gain effect. Representations of low-contrast stimuli were enhanced by stimulation of the FEF below the threshold needed to evoke saccades, whereas high-contrast stimuli were unaffected or in some areas even suppressed. Furthermore, we measured a characteristic spatial pattern of enhancement and suppression across the cortical surface, from which we propose a simple schematic of this contrast-dependent fMRI response.
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Perceptual latency priming and illusory line motion: Facilitation by gradients of attention? Adv Cogn Psychol 2009. [DOI: 10.2478/v10053-008-0047-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Cole GG, Kuhn G, Heywood CA, Kentridge RW. The Prioritization of Feature Singletons in the Change Detection Paradigm. Exp Psychol 2009; 56:134-46. [DOI: 10.1027/1618-3169.56.2.134] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Six experiments are reported investigating whether a discontinuity in colour can accrue attentional priority. In addition to a standard visual search paradigm, we examined the degree to which colour singletons and nonsingletons are susceptible to change blindness. Results showed that changes occurring at colour singletons were relatively more resistant to change blindness. Although suggestive of bottom-up marshalling of attention, no prioritization of the singleton occurred when the most stringent test of stimulus-driven attentional attraction was employed, that is, when attending to the singleton was detrimental to the task. We conclude that a discontinuity in colour will attract attention unless an attentional set is contrary to singletons.
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Baker TE, Holroyd CB. Which way do I go? Neural activation in response to feedback and spatial processing in a virtual T-maze. Cereb Cortex 2008; 19:1708-22. [PMID: 19073622 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn223] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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In 2 human event-related brain potential (ERP) experiments, we examined the feedback error-related negativity (fERN), an ERP component associated with reward processing by the midbrain dopamine system, and the N170, an ERP component thought to be generated by the medial temporal lobe (MTL), to investigate the contributions of these neural systems toward learning to find rewards in a "virtual T-maze" environment. We found that feedback indicating the absence versus presence of a reward differentially modulated fERN amplitude, but only when the outcome was not predicted by an earlier stimulus. By contrast, when a cue predicted the reward outcome, then the predictive cue (and not the feedback) differentially modulated fERN amplitude. We further found that the spatial location of the feedback stimuli elicited a large N170 at electrode sites sensitive to right MTL activation and that the latency of this component was sensitive to the spatial location of the reward, occurring slightly earlier for rewards following a right versus left turn in the maze. Taken together, these results confirm a fundamental prediction of a dopamine theory of the fERN and suggest that the dopamine and MTL systems may interact in navigational learning tasks.
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- Travis E Baker
- Department of Psychology, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia V8W 3P5, Canada.
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Boehler CN, Tsotsos JK, Schoenfeld MA, Heinze HJ, Hopf JM. The center-surround profile of the focus of attention arises from recurrent processing in visual cortex. Cereb Cortex 2008; 19:982-91. [PMID: 18755778 DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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We recently demonstrated with magnetoencephalographic recordings in human observers that the focus of attention in visual search has a spatial profile consisting of a center enhancement surrounded by a narrow zone of sensory attenuation. Here, we report new data from 2 experiments providing insights into the cortical processes that cause the surround attenuation. We show that surround suppression appears in search tasks that require spatial scrutiny, that is the precise binding of search-relevant features at the target's location but not in tasks that permit target discrimination without precise localization. Furthermore, we demonstrate that surround attenuation is linked with a stronger recurrent activity modulation in early visual cortex. Finally, we show that surround suppression appears with a delay (more than 175 ms) that is beyond the time course of the initial feedforward sweep of processing in the visual system. These observations together indicate that the suppressive surround is associated with recurrent processing and binding in the visual cortex.
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- C N Boehler
- Leibniz-Institute for Neurobiology, Magdeburg, Germany
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Cooper J, Carlile S, Alais D. Distortions of auditory space during rapid head turns. Exp Brain Res 2008; 191:209-19. [PMID: 18696058 DOI: 10.1007/s00221-008-1516-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2006] [Accepted: 07/21/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Auditory localisation was examined using brief broadband sounds presented during rapid head turns to visual targets in the peripheral field. Presenting sounds during a rapid head movement will "smear" the acoustic cues to the sound's location. During the early stages of a head turn, sound localisation accuracy was comparable to a no-turn control condition. However, significant localisation errors occurred when the probe sound was presented during the later part of a head turn. After correcting for head position, the estimate of lateral angle (horizontal position) in the front hemisphere was generally accurate. However, lateral angle estimates for positions in the rear hemisphere exhibited systematic errors that were especially large around the midline. Polar angle (elevation) perception remained robust, being comparable to no-turn controls whether tested early or late in the head turn. The results are interpreted in terms of a 'multiple look' strategy for calculating sound location, and the allocation of attention to the hemisphere containing the head-turn target.
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- Joel Cooper
- Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory, School of Medical Science and Bosch Institute, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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Three cued signal detection experiments demonstrated a role for auditory memory traces in frequency selectivity. The extent to which the cue predicted the signal frequency affected the size of the advantage for signals at the cue frequency over those at distant frequencies when the cue-signal gap was 10 sec but not when it was 1 sec. Detection of occasional signals presented at uncued frequencies was enhanced when they matched the frequency of cues from recent trials. With "relative" cues, which were usually followed by signals at the musical fifth above the cue frequency, performance on occasional signals at the cue frequency was enhanced relative to other unexpected frequencies. These results suggest that, regardless of the listener's expectations and intentions, the detectability of a signal is enhanced if its frequency matches an existing memory trace. One form of voluntary attention to frequency may involve maintaining traces that would otherwise slowly decay.
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Müller-Plath G, Elsner K. Space-based and object-based capacity limitations in visual search. VISUAL COGNITION 2007. [DOI: 10.1080/13506280600845572] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Kawahara JI, Nabeta T, Hamada J. Area-Specific Attentional Effect in the Delboeuf Illusion. Perception 2007; 36:670-85. [PMID: 17624114 DOI: 10.1068/p5747] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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In the Delboeuf illusion, a circle judged initially has a weaker effect of size induction than a circle judged subsequently (the judgment-order effect). This effect has been attributed to differential allocation of visual attention (Hamada et al, 2002 Japanese Journal of Psychology73 58–63, in Japanese). To establish the influence of attention, in experiment 1 we examined whether the effect occurred mandatorily once the outer circle was attended to, or whether it was necessary to direct attention specifically to the size of the area of the outer circle. Observers trisected the circumference of the outer circle thus attending to the outer circle in terms of its circumference, but ignoring its area. The illusion was stronger when the inner-circle area estimation was followed by the outer-circle area estimation than when the inner-circle area estimation was followed by the trisection task. In experiment 2 this result was replicated by using diameter judgment, instead of the size of the area. These findings indicate that mere allocation of attention to the outer circle contour is not sufficient to produce the judgment-order effect. Rather, attention must be specific to the task-relevant dimension, in this instance the visual area, to be effective.
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- Jun-ichiro Kawahara
- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Central 6, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8566, Japan.
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Dove ME, Eskes G, Klein RM, Shore D. A left attentional bias in chronic neglect: a case study using temporal order judgments. Neurocase 2007; 13:37-49. [PMID: 17454687 DOI: 10.1080/13554790601174146] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Previous studies of left visuospatial neglect using temporal order judgments (TOJs) have reported a temporal advantage for a stimulus presented on the right of fixation. The present case study examines an individual who shows a left temporal advantage on TOJ tasks, despite classic left-sided neglect on other tasks and in self-report. Experiment 1 found a continued left advantage on TOJs when employing a novel red/blue TOJ task to reduce potential response bias. Phasic alerting tones presented prior to random trials in Experiment 2 did not improve the abnormal attentional bias, as has been reported in previous studies of neglect. The addition of unilateral trials mixed within bilateral trials in Experiment 3 reduced the observed left advantage, suggesting a flexible attentional focus and implicating a role for strategic endogenous attentional strategies in this individual. Some implications for our understanding of endogenous orienting and relevance to rehabilitation therapy are discussed.
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- Mary E Dove
- Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Theeuwes J, Chen CYD. Attentional capture and inhibition (of return): the effect on perceptual sensitivity. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006; 67:1305-12. [PMID: 16555583 DOI: 10.3758/bf03193636] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The present study was designed to determine the spatial distribution of attention in displays in which an irrelevant color singleton was present. The results show that at the location of an irrelevant singleton, there is, first, an increased sensitivity (d'), followed later by a reduced sensitivity. The increased sensitivity implies that, first, the irrelevant singleton captured spatial attention, producing an increased sensory gain for input at the irrelevant distractor location. The later-occurring, reduced sensitivity implies the operation of inhibitory processes, possibly related to inhibition of return.
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- Jan Theeuwes
- Department of Cognitive Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Hopf JM, Boehler CN, Luck SJ, Tsotsos JK, Heinze HJ, Schoenfeld MA. Direct neurophysiological evidence for spatial suppression surrounding the focus of attention in vision. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006; 103:1053-8. [PMID: 16410356 PMCID: PMC1347985 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0507746103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 160] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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The spatial focus of attention has traditionally been envisioned as a simple spatial gradient of enhanced activity that falls off monotonically with increasing distance. Here, we show with high-density magnetoencephalographic recordings in human observers that the focus of attention is not a simple monotonic gradient but instead contains an excitatory peak surrounded by a narrow inhibitory region. To demonstrate this center-surround profile, we asked subjects to focus attention onto a color pop-out target and then presented probe stimuli at various distances from the target. We observed that the electromagnetic response to the probe was enhanced when the probe was presented at the location of the target, but the probe response was suppressed in a narrow zone surrounding the target and then recovered at more distant locations. Withdrawing attention from the pop-out target by engaging observers in a demanding foveal task eliminated this pattern, confirming a truly attention-driven effect. These results indicate that neural enhancement and suppression coexist in a spatially structured manner that is optimal to attenuate the most deleterious noise during visual object identification.
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- J-M Hopf
- Department of Neurology II, Otto-von-Guericke-University, D-39120 Magdeburg, Germany.
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Handy TC, Schaich Borg J, Turk DJ, Tipper CM, Grafton ST, Gazzaniga MS. Placing a tool in the spotlight: spatial attention modulates visuomotor responses in cortex. Neuroimage 2005; 26:266-76. [PMID: 15862227 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.01.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2004] [Revised: 12/31/2004] [Accepted: 01/21/2005] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Visual spatial attention has long been associated with facilitatory effects on visual perception. Here, we report that spatial attention can also modulate implicit visuomotor processing in dorsal regions of human cortex. Participants underwent fMRI scanning while performing a voluntary attentional orienting task that varied the category of a task-irrelevant object in the attended location (tool vs. non-tool). Data were then analyzed as a function of the attended location (left vs. right visual field) and the object category in that location. We found that the fMRI BOLD response in two visuomotor-related regions--the supplementary motor area (SMA) and the left inferior parietal lobule (IPL)--showed an interaction between the location of attention and the location of the tool in the bilateral display. Further, these responses were statistically distinct from those regions in dorsal cortex showing activity modulated only by the tool location or only by the attended location. While the effects of attending non-foveally within the visual field have been well documented in relation to visual perception, our findings support the proposal that voluntary visuospatial attention may also have consequences for the implicit planning of object-directed actions.
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- Todd C Handy
- Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
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Most models of visuospatial attention include the notion that attention is dedicated to a single location in space. However, several researchers have found evidence that under appropriate circumstances, attention may be allocated to noncontiguous locations (e.g., Awh & Pashler, 2000; Bichot, Cave, & Pashler, 1999; Kramer & Hahn, 1995). In the present experiments, the spatial distribution of attention was assessed by a novel method, perceptual latency priming: the latency benefit of an attended visual stimulus, as compared with a nonattended stimulus. Experiment 1 assessed whether observers are able to attend to two nonadjacent regions or a region of variable size. Experiment 2 tested whether, when two distant locations are attended to, the region between them is necessarily also in the focus of attention. Two further experiments controlled for objections against the method used and replicated the main results of the first two experiments. The experiments showed a robust attentional priming effect at two noncontiguous locations of the visual field, simultaneous with little or no priming of the intervening location.
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- Ingrid Scharlau
- Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
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Müller NG, Mollenhauer M, Rösler A, Kleinschmidt A. The attentional field has a Mexican hat distribution. Vision Res 2004; 45:1129-37. [PMID: 15707921 DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2004.11.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 97] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2004] [Revised: 09/23/2004] [Accepted: 11/04/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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We assessed the interference by distracter letters on target discrimination as a function of the distance between incompatible distracters and target. The slope of the response time-distance function supports a Mexican hat pattern of attentional modulation in the visual field. We relate the results to our recent finding of neural activity suppression in primary visual cortex coding locations in the vicinity of an attended region [Muller, N. G., & Kleinschmidt, A. (2004). The attentional 'spotlight's' penumbra: Center-surround modulation in striate cortex. Neuroreport, 15(6), 977-980]. As behavioral performance parallels activity modulation of primary visual cortex but not other areas we propose that perceptual capacities are determined by attentional response properties of V1.
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- Notger G Müller
- Cognitive Neurology Unit, Department of Neurology and Brain Imaging Center, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60590, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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Single-unit recording studies in the macaque have carefully documented the modulatory effects of attention on the response properties of visual cortical neurons. Attention produces qualitatively different effects on firing rate, depending on whether a stimulus appears alone or accompanied by distracters. Studies of contrast gain control in anesthetized mammals have found parallel patterns of results when the luminance contrast of a stimulus increases. This finding suggests that attention has co-opted the circuits that mediate contrast gain control and that it operates by increasing the effective contrast of the attended stimulus. Consistent with this idea, microstimulation of the frontal eye fields, one of several areas that control the allocation of spatial attention, induces spatially local increases in sensitivity both at the behavioral level and among neurons in area V4, where endogenously generated attention increases contrast sensitivity. Studies in the slice have begun to explain how modulatory signals might cause such increases in sensitivity.
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- John H Reynolds
- Systems Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California 92037-1099, USA.
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Theeuwes J, Kramer AF, Kingstone A. Attentional capture modulates perceptual sensitivity. Psychon Bull Rev 2004; 11:551-4. [PMID: 15376809 DOI: 10.3758/bf03196609] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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The present study was designed to determine the spatial distribution of attention in displays in which an irrelevant color singleton was present. The results show that the presence of an irrelevant color singleton modulates target detectability (d'). The presence of an irrelevant singleton reduces the gain for input at the target location, particularly when the irrelevant color singleton was close to the target singleton. In line with earlier claims, it is argued that the capture of attention by the irrelevant singleton causes a reduced sensory input at the target location.
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- Jan Theeuwes
- Department of Cognitive Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Goldsmith M, Yeari M. Modulation of object-based attention by spatial focus under endogenous and exogenous orienting. J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 2004; 29:897-918. [PMID: 14585013 DOI: 10.1037/0096-1523.29.5.897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 64] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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In R. Egly, J. Driver, and R. D. Rafal's (1994) influential double-rectangle spatial-cuing paradigm, exogenous cues consistently induce object-based attention, whereas endogenous cues generally induce space-based attention. This difference suggests an interdependency between mode of orienting (endogenous vs exogenous) and mode of selection (object based vs space based). However, mode of orienting is generally confounded with initial focus of attention: Endogenous orienting begins with attention focused on a central cue, whereas exogenous orienting begins with attention widely spread. In this study, an attentional-focusing hypothesis is examined and supported by experiments showing that for both endogenous and exogenous cuing, object-based effects are obtained under conditions that encourage spread attention, but they are attenuated under conditions that encourage focused attention. General implications for object-based attention are discussed. ((c) 2003 APA, all rights reserved)
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The prior entry hypothesis contends that attention accelerates sensory processing, shortening the time to perception. Typical observations supporting the hypothesis may be explained equally well by response biases, changes in decision criteria, or sensory facilitation. In a series of experiments conducted to discriminate among the potential mechanisms, observers judged the simultaneity or temporal order of two stimuli, to one of which attention was oriented by exogenous, endogenous, gaze-directed, or multiple exogenous cues. The results suggest that prior entry effects are primarily caused by sensory facilitation and attentional modifications of the decision mechanism, with only a small part possibly due to an attention-dependent sensory acceleration.
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- Keith A Schneider
- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA.
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Mendez MF. Surveying a Blank Field with the Attentional Spotlight. Percept Mot Skills 2003; 97:560-8. [PMID: 14620245 DOI: 10.2466/pms.2003.97.2.560] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Spatial localization is a unique aspect of selective attention that precedes and facilitates other aspects of sensory processing. A common model of spatial attention is an attentional spotlight that enlarges to fit attentional demands. It is unclear if this attentional spotlight expands to survey a blank field or to scan the spatial environment with a smaller attentional spotlight. Two tachistoscopic experiments with young adults investigated how attention is surveyed in a blank field. Exp. 1 consisted of single letters at two concentric regions and under different conditions of attentional demand. Reaction times were proportionally slower for stimuli occurring in a combination of the two regions located at different distances from the fixation point than for stimuli occurring in each region alone. This finding is not consistent with attentional spread to encompass the entire attentional field. The addition of more stimulus locations within each single region yielded significantly slower reaction times. Together these findings suggest that a small attentional spotlight serially monitors different regions of the visual field when there are anticipated locations to be attended.
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- Mario F Mendez
- Department of Neurology, University of California at Los Angeles, School of Medicine, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, 90073, USA.
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Parasnis I, Samar VJ, Berent GP. Deaf adults without attention deficit hyperactivity disorder display reduced perceptual sensitivity and elevated impulsivity on the Test of Variables of Attention (T.O.V.A.). JOURNAL OF SPEECH, LANGUAGE, AND HEARING RESEARCH : JSLHR 2003; 46:1166-1183. [PMID: 14575350 DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2003/091)] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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The Test of Variables of Attention (T.O.V.A.; R. A. Leark, T. R. Dupuy, L. M. Greenberg, C. L. Corman, & C. L. Kindeschi, 1996) is a continuous performance test used widely to help diagnose attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in both hearing and deaf people. The T.O.V.A. previously has been normed only on the hearing population. The T.O.V.A. performance of 38 prelingually and severely-to-profoundly deaf young adults and 34 hearing young adults who did not have ADHD was examined in this study. Deaf and hearing participants did not differ on the T.O.V.A. omission variables. However, deaf participants had significantly lower d' scores than hearing participants, indicating reduced perceptual sensitivity to the distinction between target and distractor stimuli. Consistent with the existing literature on attentional reorganization in the deaf population, this result was interpreted as indicating a deafness-related reduction in attention to centrally presented stimuli. Deaf participants also showed 2 to 3 times more commission errors than hearing participants and displayed a higher incidence of anticipatory errors. These results suggest a deafness-related increase in impulsivity at the time of response initiation. Beta score analysis confirmed that deaf participants adopted an overall less conservative (more impulsive) response criterion that contributed to their total elevated commission errors. However, a portion of the commission errors was secondary to their reduced d', not to increased behavioral impulsivity. Separate factor analyses of the standard T.O.V.A. variables revealed highly similar factor structures for deaf and hearing participants, indicating similar construct validity of the T.O.V.A. for both groups. The evidence for increased inattention and impulsivity in a non-ADHD deaf sample are interpreted in the context of an adaptive attentional reorganization due to deafness. Along with the factor analytic results, these considerations suggest that separate T.O.V.A. norms must be developed for the deaf population to avoid overdiagnosis of ADHD in deaf individuals.
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- Ila Parasnis
- Department of Research, National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY 14623, USA.
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Kerzel D. Attention maintains mental extrapolation of target position: irrelevant distractors eliminate forward displacement after implied motion. Cognition 2003; 88:109-31. [PMID: 12711155 DOI: 10.1016/s0010-0277(03)00018-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Observers' judgments of the final position of a moving target are typically shifted in the direction of implied motion ("representational momentum"). The role of attention is unclear: visual attention may be necessary to maintain or halt target displacement. When attention was captured by irrelevant distractors presented during the retention interval, forward displacement after implied target motion disappeared, suggesting that attention may be necessary to maintain mental extrapolation of target motion. In a further corroborative experiment, the deployment of attention was measured after a sequence of implied motion, and faster responses were observed to stimuli appearing in the direction of motion. Thus, attention may guide the mental extrapolation of target motion. Additionally, eye movements were measured during stimulus presentation and retention interval. The results showed that forward displacement with implied motion does not depend on eye movements. Differences between implied and smooth motion are discussed with respect to recent neurophysiological findings.
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- Dirk Kerzel
- FB 06 Psychologie und Sportwissenschaft, Abteilung Allgemeine Psychologie, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Otto-Behaghel-Strasse 10F, 35394, Giessen, Germany.
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Squella SAF, Ribeiro-Do-Valle LE. Priming effects of a peripheral visual stimulus in simple and go/no-go tasks. Braz J Med Biol Res 2003; 36:247-61. [PMID: 12563528 DOI: 10.1590/s0100-879x2003000200013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The early facilitatory effect of a peripheral spatially visual prime stimulus described in the literature for simple reaction time tasks has been usually smaller than that described for complex (go/no-go, choice) reaction time tasks. In the present study we investigated the reason for this difference. In a first and a second experiment we tested the participants in both a simple task and a go/no-go task, half of them beginning with one of these tasks and half with the other one. We observed that the prime stimulus had an early effect, inhibitory for the simple task and facilitatory for the go/no-go task, when the task was performed first. No early effect appeared when the task was performed second. In a third and a fourth experiment the participants were, respectively, tested in the simple task and in the go/no-go task for four sessions (the prime stimulus was presented in the second, third and fourth sessions). The early effects of the prime stimulus did not change across the sessions, suggesting that a habituatory process was not the cause for the disappearance of these effects in the first two experiments. Our findings are compatible with the idea that different attentional strategies are adopted in simple and complex reaction time tasks. In the former tasks the gain of automatic attention mechanisms may be adjusted to a low level and in the latter tasks, to a high level. The attentional influence of the prime stimulus may be antagonized by another influence, possibly a masking one.
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- S A F Squella
- Departamento de Fisiologia e Biofísica, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
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MENDEZ MARIOF. SURVEYING A BLANK FIELD WITH THE ATTENTIONAL SPOTLIGHT. Percept Mot Skills 2003; 97:560. [DOI: 10.2466/pms.97.6.560-568] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 09/02/2023]
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Ishihara M, Imanaka K, Mori S. Lateralized effects of target location on reaction times when preparing for manual aiming at a visual target. Hum Mov Sci 2002; 21:563-82. [PMID: 12620712 DOI: 10.1016/s0167-9457(02)00173-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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To elucidate the temporal characteristics of information processing for motor action differing in complexity in relation to both perceptual and cognitive information processing, we investigated whether the reaction times (RTs) to a visual target would be affected by task complexity (finger lifting or manual aiming), pre-cueing (with a pre-cue or without a pre-cue), or target location (five horizontal positions). Using the right hand, seven right-handed subjects performed two tasks, finger lifting and manual aiming at a target, with or without a pre-cue. The pre-cue announced the location of the target to be presented. An ANOVA showed significant interactions between task and location and between pre-cue and location with no significant interaction between task and pre-cue, indicating that the task-location interaction does not depend on whether or not a pre-cue is given. The manual-aiming RTs were longer than the finger-lifting RTs, and the effects of the target location on the RTs differed for finger lifting and manual aiming. It can be assumed that the longer RTs of manual aiming reflect the time for information processing that is needed when preparing for the aiming action per se, which is an extra movement performed in addition to the simple initiation of finger lifting. Differential RTs (DRTs) calculated by subtracting the finger-lifting RTs from the aiming RTs were therefore examined. The DRTs significantly differed for target locations (i.e., a lateralized effect), with the DRTs for an ipsilateral target appearing to be significantly shorter than those for contralateral and central targets. The lateralized effect appearing on the DRTs may be mediated by the processing of visual-spatial information about visual targets as motor preparations are made for manual aiming.
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- Masami Ishihara
- Department of Kinesiology, Graduate School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1 Minamiosawa, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan.
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Single items such as objects, letters or words are often presented in the right or left visual field to examine hemispheric differences in cognitive processing. However, in everyday life, such items appear within a visual context or scene that affects how they are represented and selected for attention. Here we examine processing asymmetries for a visual target within a frame of other elements (scene). We are especially interested in whether the allocation of visual attention affects the asymmetries, and in whether attention-related asymmetries occur in scenes oriented out of alignment with the viewer. In Experiment 1, visual field asymmetries were affected by the validity of a spatial precue in an upright frame. In Experiment 2, the same pattern of asymmetries occurred within frames rotated 90 degrees on the screen. In Experiment 3, additional sources of the spatial asymmetries were explored. We conclude that several left/right processing asymmetries, including some associated with the deployment of spatial attention, can be organized within scenes, in the absence of differential direct access to the two hemispheres.
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- Dell L Rhodes
- Reed College, 3203 S.E. Woodstock Boulevard, Portland, OR 97202, USA.
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Hasselbach-Heitzeg MM, Reuter-Lorenz PA. Egocentric body-centered coordinates modulate visuomotor performance. Neuropsychologia 2002; 40:1822-33. [PMID: 12062894 DOI: 10.1016/s0028-3932(02)00034-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Parietal damage has been hypothesized to distort the body-centered coordinate frame and produce the ipsilesional spatial bias characteristic of unilateral neglect. The present studies investigated the role of the egocentric frame in normal visuomotor performance by manipulating the alignment of the body midline in neurologically-intact adults. The results from two experiments indicate that: (1) rightward rotation causes a right visual field advantage in detection times for lateralized targets; (2) rightward rotation evokes an increase in visual sensitivity to right visual field targets and a decrease in sensitivity to left visual field targets; and (3) leftward rotation does not affect response latency or sensitivity, however, response criterion is mildly affected. By demonstrating that the alignment of the body-centered frame can induce neglect-like asymmetries in visuomotor performance in neurologically-intact subjects, the results support a role for an altered body-centered representation in clinical neglect.
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- Mary M Hasselbach-Heitzeg
- Department of Psychiatry, The University of Michigan, 400 E. Eisenhower Parkway, Suite 2A, Ann Arbor, MI 48108-3318, USA.
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Barthélémy S, Boulinguez P. Orienting visuospatial attention generates manual reaction time asymmetries in target detection and pointing. Behav Brain Res 2002; 133:109-16. [PMID: 12048178 DOI: 10.1016/s0166-4328(01)00446-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Right-handers exhibit a left hand advantage in response preparation when pointing to targets. These manual asymmetries are generally attributed to a right hemisphere specialization for spatial processing. More precisely, the left hand reaction time (RT) advantage was recently supposed to reflect specifically the right hemisphere superiority for movement planning. This study proposes to investigate a possible attentional origin for manual RT asymmetries. In a first experiment, we used the covert orienting of attention paradigm to measure subjects' RTs when reaching at targets (pointing task) both in valid, neutral and invalid conditions, either in the left or in the right visual fields and with the left and the right hand. In a second experiment, we applied the same paradigm to a detection task (key-pressing). Results revealed that orienting of attention to spatial locations was more time consuming when responding with the right than with the left hand, whether movement planning was required or not. It is suggested that the right hemisphere dominance for orienting of visuospatial attention account, partly at least, for the RT asymmetries classically observed in manual aiming.
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- Sebastien Barthélémy
- Laboratoire d'Analyse de la Performance Motrice Humaine, MSHS, 99 avenue du Recteur Pineau, BP 632, 86022, EA 2253, Poitiers cedex, France
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In the Fröhlich illusion, judgements of the first position of a moving object are typically displaced in the direction of motion. The illusion has been obtained with linear motion of a small target, and with rotary motion of a spatially extended line. We compared judgements of the initial orientation of a small dot and a line that rotated around the point of fixation. The illusion was absent with the dot, whereas it was reliably obtained with the line. When the density of the line was reduced to two dots, the illusion persisted. However, the illusion was absent when a half-line extending to only one side from fixation was presented. We discuss the results with respect to two attentional accounts of the Fröhlich illusion and an account based on spatiotemporal integration.
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- Dirk Kerzel
- Unit for Cognition and Action, Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research, Amalienstrasse 33, 80799 Munich, Germany.
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Johannes S, Wieringa BM, Nager W, Rada D, Dengler R, Emrich HM, Münte TF, Dietrich DE. Discrepant target detection and action monitoring in obsessive-compulsive disorder. Psychiatry Res 2001; 108:101-10. [PMID: 11738544 DOI: 10.1016/s0925-4927(01)00117-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 140] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has been related to altered mechanisms of action monitoring and target detection, and it has been hypothesized that hyperactive striatal-cortical circuits constitute the underlying pathophysiology. This study used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to explore this hypothesis. A choice reaction time experiment was carried out in a group of OCD patients and a normal comparison group. The P3b component of the ERP to targets was taken as an indicator of the target-evaluation process and the response-locked error-related negativity (ERN) served as an indicator of action monitoring. We hypothesized that the OCD group would show a shortened P3b latency and an amplitude-enhanced ERN. Consistent with our expectations, the P3b latency was shorter and the ERN amplitude was higher in the OCD group. Unexpectedly, we also observed a prolonged ERN latency in the OCD group and a more posterior topography of this component. The data provide partial support for the hypothesis of a hyperactive neural network in OCD. In addition the disorder must involve pathophysiological processes that are presumably related to other aspects of its complex and heterogeneous clinical hallmarks.
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- S Johannes
- Department of Neuropsychology, Otto-von-Guericke Universität, Magdeburg, Germany.
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