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  • Neuroscience
  • Visual attention

Background:

  • Attentional selection in global/local processing is proposed to occur in two stages: early filtering/weighting and late content-to-level binding.
  • It is hypothesized that improved binding enhances attentional selectivity, predicting increased accuracy with longer response times.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the two-stage model of attentional selection in global/local processing.
  • To determine if accuracy increases with response time, supporting the role of binding in attentional selectivity.
  • To differentiate between continuously and discretely improving attentional selectivity models.

Main Methods:

  • A global/local experiment using hierarchical letters as stimuli.
  • Manipulation of selection difficulty by blocking versus randomizing target levels.
  • Fitting sequential sampling models to distributional data to analyze response times and accuracy.

Main Results:

  • Accuracy significantly increased with response time, supporting the prediction.
  • This accuracy increase was less pronounced under randomized target levels compared to blocked levels.
  • Sequential sampling models indicated that a discretely improving attentional selectivity model provided a better fit to the data.

Conclusions:

  • Attentional selection in global/local processing is better explained by a model with discrete improvements in selectivity.
  • Randomizing target levels impaired the efficiency of both early selection and content-to-level binding.
  • The findings support a two-stage model of attention with distinct phases of selection and binding.