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Joseph Pruitt^1,2,3, J D Knotts^4,5, Brian Odegaard^1,6,7

¹University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.

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Visual attention and stimulus location impact perception and self-awareness in the visual periphery. Metacognitive sensitivity declines with distance, but efficiency remains stable, revealing insights into peripheral visual biases.

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Visual Perception
Psychophysics

Background:

Perceptual and metacognitive abilities vary across the visual periphery.
Factors like attention locus and stimulus location influence these abilities.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the relationship between visual attention and eccentricity in the visual periphery.
To quantify perceptual sensitivity, metacognitive sensitivity, and response biases across the visual field.

Main Methods:

A two-alternative forced-choice (2AFC) detection task was employed.
Participants identified signals at eight peripheral locations (±10° to 40°) with valid or invalid attentional cues.
Perceptual sensitivity (d'a), metacognitive sensitivity (meta-d'a), and response bias (c'a) were estimated.

Main Results:

Perceptual sensitivity decreased with eccentricity and improved with valid attention cues.
Response bias shifted towards conservative at 40° eccentricity.
Metacognitive sensitivity decreased with eccentricity and invalid cues, but metacognitive efficiency remained unaffected.

Conclusions:

Observers possess metacognitive insight into performance changes across the visual field.
Peripheral visual detection biases are variable and depend on stimulus location.