Trial reportThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2014
Changing the spatial scope of attention alters patterns of neural gain in human cortex.
Trial report in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 48 papers.
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- Adaptive focus: Investigating size tuning in visual attention using SSVEP.Journal of vision · 2025Article
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- The impact of emotional valence on the spatial scope of visual selective attention.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Sustained attention operates via dissociable neural mechanisms across different eccentric locations.Scientific reports · 2024Article
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- Sustained attention operates via dissociable neural mechanisms across different eccentric locations.Research square · 2023Article
- Dissociable Neural Mechanisms Underlie the Effects of Attention on Visual Appearance and Response Bias.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
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Abstract
Over the last several decades, spatial attention has been shown to influence the activity of neurons in visual cortex in various ways. These conflicting observations have inspired competing models to account for the influence of attention on perception and behavior. Here, we used electroencephalography (EEG) to assess steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEP) in human subjects and showed that highly focused spatial attention primarily enhanced neural responses to high-contrast stimuli (response gain), whereas distributed attention primarily enhanced responses to medium-contrast stimuli (contrast gain). Together, these data suggest that different patterns of neural modulation do not reflect fundamentally different neural mechanisms, but instead reflect changes in the spatial extent of attention.
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