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Eye-specific attentional bias driven by selection history.

Eunhye Choe¹, Min-Shik Kim²

¹Department of Psychology, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, South Korea.

Psychonomic Bulletin & Review

|June 10, 2022

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Eye selection history creates an attentional bias in binocular rivalry, speeding up target detection for the same eye across trials. This effect diminishes when interocular conflict is reduced, highlighting attention

Keywords:

Binocular rivalry Repetition priming Selection history Selective attention

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Visual Perception

Background:

Attentional selection processes competing stimuli and biases subsequent information processing based on prior experience.
Intertrial repetition of target features or locations typically facilitates perceptual processing by guiding attention.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether eye selection history in binocular rivalry induces an eye-specific attentional bias.
To determine if prior attentional deployment modulates subsequent information processing in visual perception.

Main Methods:

Four experiments involving participants responding to targets presented at specific locations on either the left or right eye.
Binocular rivalry paradigm used to create interocular conflict and manipulate eye selection history.
Comparison of target detection times based on whether the target was presented to the same or different eye as the previous trial.

Main Results:

Faster target detection was observed when the target was presented to the same eye as in the previous trial under binocular rivalry.
This eye repetition effect was not significant when interocular conflict was reduced (i.e., stimuli presented to only one eye per trial).

Conclusions:

Eye selection history influences eye dominance during binocular rivalry by amplifying selected information from competing inputs.
Prior attentional deployment leaves a residual effect, modulating subsequent information processing and visual attention.