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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Selective attention filters information, with the biased competition model explaining target processing under stimulus competition.
  • Proactive influence of anticipated competition on attentional templates remains unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate how anticipated competition demands modulate preparatory brain activity using electroencephalography (EEG).
  • Examine the relationship between preparatory activity, competition context, and task performance.

Main Methods:

  • Used a cue-target paradigm with high (simultaneous) and low (sequential) stimulus competition blocks.
  • Applied Multivariate Pattern Analysis (MVPA) and time-frequency analyses to EEG data.

Main Results:

  • Preactivation of target categories occurred in both competition contexts, with a ramping-up profile.
  • Cross-classification revealed no generalization across competition conditions, indicating different preparatory formats.
  • Higher theta band power was observed in high competition contexts, mediating performance.

Conclusions:

  • Internal attentional templates are preactivated regardless of anticipated competition, but their neural patterns differ.
  • Distinct preparatory processes, not directly linked to theta power, underlie different competition contexts.
  • Findings enhance understanding of top-down attentional control across varying cognitive demands.