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  • Cognitive psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Visual perception

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  • Resolving visual ambiguity is crucial for perception.
  • Ambiguous figures, particularly those with depth-relation ambiguity, are key research tools.
  • Previous studies indicate location-based attention can bias depth perception.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if feature-based attention can bias depth perception in ambiguous figures.
  • To determine if attending to a distributed feature influences the interpretation of a structure-from-motion display.

Main Methods:

  • Participants viewed a structure-from-motion display of a rotating cylinder with ambiguous depth cues (red vs. green dots).
  • A secondary task required participants to attend to either the red or green dots globally.
  • Perceptual reports of clockwise vs. counterclockwise rotation (indicating front surface) were collected.

Main Results:

  • Attending to a specific feature (e.g., red dots) increased the likelihood of perceiving the corresponding surface as the front.
  • Both experiments demonstrated a significant bias in depth perception based on feature-based attention.
  • This effect was comparable to previously observed effects of location-based attention.

Conclusions:

  • Feature-based attention, similar to location-based attention, can bias the perceptual interpretation of ambiguous visual stimuli.
  • Attention plays a critical role in resolving competition between possible interpretations of visual scenes.
  • The findings contribute to understanding the mechanisms of visual attention and perceptual decision-making.