ArticleHuman brain mapping2014
Earliest stages of visual cortical processing are not modified by attentional load.
Article in Human brain mapping, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 60 citations in OpenAlex.
- Feedforward Processing in Early Visual Cortex Underlies the Ebbinghaus Illusion.Cognitive science · 2026Article
- Concept2Brain: an AI model for predicting neurophysiological responses to text and pictures.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Attentional demands in the visual field modulate audiovisual interactions in the temporal domain.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
- Fast perceptual learning induces location-specific facilitation and suppression at early stages of visual cortical processing.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- Visual perceptual load and processing of somatosensory stimuli in primary and secondary somatosensory cortices.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Cognitive penetrability of scene representations based on horizontal image disparities.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Distinct Effects of Stimulus Repetition on Various Temporal Stages of Subject's Own Name Processing.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Spatial attention modulates earliest visual processing: An electrical neuroimaging study.Heliyon · 2020Article
- Anatomic and functional asymmetries interactively shape human early visual cortex responses.Journal of vision · 2020Article
- Modulation of the Earliest Component of the Human VEP by Spatial Attention: An Investigation of Task Demands.Cerebral cortex communications · 2020Article
- Article
- No Evidence that Predictions and Attention Modulate the First Feedforward Sweep of Cortical Information Processing.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2019Article
- Detailed spatiotemporal brain mapping of chromatic vision combining high-resolution VEP with fMRI and retinotopy.Human brain mapping · 2018Article
- Automatic Detection of Orientation Contrast Occurs at Early but Not Earliest Stages of Visual Cortical Processing in Humans.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2018Article
- Brief Report: Early VEPs to Pattern-Reversal in Adolescents and Adults with Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2016Article
- The COGs (context, object, and goals) in multisensory processing.Experimental brain research · 2016Review
- Article
- Article
- Attention-dependent early cortical suppression contributes to crowding.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2014Article
- Asynchronous presentation of global and local information reveals effects of attention on brain electrical activity specific to each level.Frontiers in psychology · 2014Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
4 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
Abstract
This study investigated the effects of attentional load on neural responses to attended and irrelevant visual stimuli by recording high-density event-related potentials (ERPs) from the scalp in normal adult subjects. Peripheral (upper and lower visual field) and central stimuli were presented in random order at a rapid rate while subjects responded to targets among the central stimuli. Color detection and color-orientation conjunction search tasks were used as the low- and high-load tasks, respectively. Behavioral results showed significant load effects on both accuracy and reaction time for target detections. ERP results revealed no significant load effect on the initial C1 component (60-100 ms) evoked by either central-relevant or peripheral-irrelevant stimuli. Source analysis with dipole modeling confirmed previous reports that the C1 includes the initial evoked response in primary visual cortex. Source analyses indicated that high attentional load enhanced the early (70-140 ms) neural response to central-relevant stimuli in ventral-lateral extrastriate cortex, whereas load effects on peripheral-irrelevant stimulus processing started at 110 ms and were localized to more dorsal and anterior extrastriate cortical areas. These results provide evidence that the earliest stages of visual cortical processing are not modified by attentional load and show that attentional load affects the processing of task relevant and irrelevant stimuli in different ways.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.