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Investigating the Deployment of Visual Attention Before Accurate and Averaging Saccades via Eye Tracking and Assessment of Visual Sensitivity
Published on: March 18, 2019
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Eye-of-origin flash triggers eye-based attention only when the flash is task-relevant
Yanliang Sun1, Xiaolin Wang1, Wenhao Yu1
1School of Psychology.
Summary
Selective attention can be guided by eye-of-origin, even without awareness. Task-relevant cues enhance processing for the cued eye, demonstrating eye-based attentional orienting.
Area of Science:
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Visual Attention
Background:
- Attentional selection typically operates based on location, features, or objects.
- The role of eye-of-origin in attentional selection remains less understood.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate whether selective attention is based on the input's eye-of-origin.
- To explore if eye-based attentional orienting occurs even with unawareness of cue origin.
Main Methods:
- Utilized a monocular cuing paradigm with task-relevant and task-irrelevant cues.
- Measured response times to targets presented to cued and uncued eyes.
- Assessed modulation of the spatial Stroop effect by monocular cues.
Main Results:
- Task-relevant monocular cues triggered eye-based attentional orienting, speeding responses in the same-eye condition.
- Eye-specific attentional effects diminished when cues were task-irrelevant.
- Monocular cues modulated the spatial Stroop effect, increasing it for the attended eye.
Conclusions:
- Endogenous attentional selection can be based on eye-of-origin, independent of conscious awareness.
- Attentional systems can enhance visual information processing within specific monocular channels based on task relevance.
- Findings suggest a mechanism for selective visual information enhancement in a particular monocular pathway.
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