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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Visual Perception
  • Primate Behavior

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  • Spatial selection, crucial for behavior, is guided by visual saliency and cognitive factors.
  • The role of mid-level perceptual processes, like form recognition, in spatial selection remains unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if task-irrelevant peripheral visual forms influence covert and overt spatial selection behaviors.
  • To determine if mid-level visual form recognition contributes to spatial selection in humans and monkeys.

Main Methods:

  • Humans and monkeys performed a visual detection task with speeded manual or saccadic responses.
  • Targets were presented on peripheral images, one with a visual form, the other scrambled.
  • Image relevance to the task was manipulated to be zero.

Main Results:

  • Response times were faster when targets were congruent with visual forms compared to incongruent ones.
  • Incongruent targets led to significantly more errors, indicating automatic capture by forms.
  • These effects were observed in both manual (covert) and oculomotor (overt) responses across species.

Conclusions:

  • Mid-level visual form recognition significantly contributes to both covert and overt spatial selection.
  • Neural circuits for target selection, like the superior colliculus, may have direct access to visual form information.
  • Visual forms act as potent, automatic spatial cues influencing attentional orienting behaviors.