Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Concept Videos

Association Areas of the Cortex01:21

Association Areas of the Cortex

Association areas are regions of the cerebral cortex that do not have a specific sensory or motor function. Instead, they integrate and interpret information from various sources to enable higher cognitive processes such as memory, learning, and decision-making. Some key association areas include the following:
Prefrontal Association Area: This area is located in the frontal lobe and is involved in planning, decision-making, and moderating social behavior. It connects with primary motor areas,...
Parallel Processing01:20

Parallel Processing

The brain processes sensory information rapidly due to parallel processing, which involves sending data across multiple neural pathways at the same time. This method allows the brain to manage various sensory qualities, such as shapes, colors, movements, and locations, all concurrently. For instance, when observing a forest landscape, the brain simultaneously processes the movement of leaves, the shapes of trees, the depth between them, and the various shades of green. This enables a quick and...
Depth Perception and Spatial Vision01:15

Depth Perception and Spatial Vision

Depth perception is the ability to perceive objects three-dimensionally. It relies on two types of cues: binocular and monocular. Binocular cues depend on the combination of images from both eyes and how the eyes work together. Since the eyes are in slightly different positions, each eye captures a slightly different image. This disparity between images, known as binocular disparity, helps the brain interpret depth. When the brain compares these images, it determines the distance to an object.
Visual System01:26

Visual System

Light enters the eye through the cornea, a transparent, dome-shaped surface covering the surface of the eyeball that helps to direct and focus incoming light. This light is then channeled toward the pupil, an adjustable opening whose size is controlled by the iris. The iris, a pigmented muscle, regulates the amount of light entering the eye by contracting or dilating the pupil, thereby ensuring optimal light levels for clear vision.
Once through the pupil, the light passes through the lens, a...
Vision01:24

Vision

Vision is the result of light being detected and transduced into neural signals by the retina of the eye. This information is then further analyzed and interpreted by the brain. First, light enters the front of the eye and is focused by the cornea and lens onto the retina—a thin sheet of neural tissue lining the back of the eye. Because of refraction through the convex lens of the eye, images are projected onto the retina upside-down and reversed.

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Selective control of prefrontal neural timescales by parietal cortex.

Nature communications·2026
Same author

Perisaccadic Attentional Updating in Area V4: A Neurocomputational Approach.

The European journal of neuroscience·2025
Same author

Interacting corticobasal ganglia-thalamocortical loops shape behavioral control through cognitive maps and shortcuts.

Trends in neurosciences·2025
Same author

Bridging Conflicting Views on Eye Position Signals: A Neurocomputational Approach to Perisaccadic Perception: Eye Position Information in Brain and Model.

The European journal of neuroscience·2025
Same author

A systematic analysis of the joint effects of ganglion cells, lagged LGN cells, and intercortical inhibition on spatiotemporal processing and direction selectivity.

Neural networks : the official journal of the International Neural Network Society·2025
Same author

Selective control of prefrontal neural timescales by parietal cortex.

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology·2025
Same journal

Vestibular function drives gaze stability in locomoting macaques.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience·2026
Same journal

Region- and layer-specific glutamatergic synapse development in the nascent cortical hierarchy.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience·2026
Same journal

Endogenous peptide derived from c-Cbl-associated protein counteracts its inhibitory effect on enteric neural crest cell colonization in Hirschsprung disease.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience·2026
Same journal

Drowsiness alters the neural dynamics but not the core computations of multisensory integration.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience·2026
Same journal

A Matter of Parameters: Tailored Transcranial Focused Ultrasound Enhances Cortico-Thalamo-Cortical Circuit Resonance.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience·2026
Same journal

Proactive visual and motor prioritization differentially scale with cue reliability.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience·2026
See all related articles

Related Experiment Video

Updated: Jun 12, 2026

Measuring Attention and Visual Processing Speed by Model-based Analysis of Temporal-order Judgments
13:00

Measuring Attention and Visual Processing Speed by Model-based Analysis of Temporal-order Judgments

Published on: January 23, 2017

Attention alters feature space in motion processing.

Marc Zirnsak1, Fred H Hamker

  • 1Department of Psychology, Institute II, Westfälische Wilhelms-University, 48149 Münster, Germany. mzirnsak@stanford.edu

The Journal of Neuroscience : the Official Journal of the Society for Neuroscience
|May 21, 2010
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Feature-based attention significantly alters visual perception by magnifying relevant features and suppressing irrelevant ones. This suggests attention directly reshapes our sensory experience, not just filters it.

More Related Videos

Investigating the Deployment of Visual Attention Before Accurate and Averaging Saccades via Eye Tracking and Assessment of Visual Sensitivity
06:46

Investigating the Deployment of Visual Attention Before Accurate and Averaging Saccades via Eye Tracking and Assessment of Visual Sensitivity

Published on: March 18, 2019

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: Jun 12, 2026

Measuring Attention and Visual Processing Speed by Model-based Analysis of Temporal-order Judgments
13:00

Measuring Attention and Visual Processing Speed by Model-based Analysis of Temporal-order Judgments

Published on: January 23, 2017

Investigating the Deployment of Visual Attention Before Accurate and Averaging Saccades via Eye Tracking and Assessment of Visual Sensitivity
06:46

Investigating the Deployment of Visual Attention Before Accurate and Averaging Saccades via Eye Tracking and Assessment of Visual Sensitivity

Published on: March 18, 2019

Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • Attention modulates neural activity, enhancing relevant and suppressing irrelevant stimuli.
  • The precise mechanism of attention's influence on perception remains debated: gating versus direct representation modification.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether feature-based attention directly impacts visual feature space representation.
  • To determine if attention alters perception by magnifying relevant over irrelevant features.

Main Methods:

  • Human observers were presented with a static motion aftereffect stimulus.
  • Observers attended to a motion direction that differed from the adaptor stimulus.
  • Direction estimates of the motion aftereffect were recorded and analyzed.

Main Results:

  • Direction estimates of the static motion aftereffect significantly changed when observers attended to a different motion direction.
  • This change indicates a distortion in the representation of motion direction.

Conclusions:

  • Feature-based attention appears to operate by locally magnifying attended feature dimensions within the representational space.
  • Attention directly influences the subjective experience of visual features, leading to altered percepts.