ArticleJournal of vision2016
Covert spatial attention is functionally intact in amblyopic human adults.
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- Asymmetries in Foveal Vision.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Visual adaptation stronger at the horizontal than the vertical meridian: Linking performance with V1 cortical surface area.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- The impact of eye movements on amblyopic vision: A mini-review.Vision research · 2025Review
- Exogenous Spatial Attention Helps Overcome Spatial Specificity of Visual Learning in the Blind Field After V1 Damage.Journal of cognitive enhancement : towards the integration of theory and practice · 2025Article
- Opposite asymmetry in visual perception of humans and macaques.Current biology : CB · 2025Article
- Asymmetries in foveal vision.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Presaccadic Attention Enhances and Reshapes the Contrast Sensitivity Function Differentially around the Visual Field.eNeuro · 2024Article
- Collective plasticity of binocular interactions in the adult visual system.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Presaccadic Attention Depends on Eye Movement Direction and Is Related to V1 Cortical Magnification.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- The vertical position of visual information conditions spatial memory performance in healthy aging.Communications psychology · 2023Article
- Polar angle asymmetries in visual perception and neural architecture.Trends in neurosciences · 2023Review
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- Presaccadic attention sharpens visual acuity.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Exogenous attention generalizes location transfer of perceptual learning in adults with amblyopia.iScience · 2022Article
- Presaccadic attention enhances contrast sensitivity, but not at the upper vertical meridian.iScience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Certain abnormalities in behavioral performance and neural signaling have been attributed to a deficit of visual attention in amblyopia, a neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by a diverse array of visual deficits following abnormal binocular childhood experience. Critically, most have inferred attention's role in their task without explicitly manipulating and measuring its effects against a baseline condition. Here, we directly investigate whether human amblyopic adults benefit from covert spatial attention-the selective processing of visual information in the absence of eye movements-to the same degree as neurotypical observers. We manipulated both involuntary (Experiment 1) and voluntary (Experiment 2) attention during an orientation discrimination task for which the effects of covert spatial attention have been well established in neurotypical and special populations. In both experiments, attention significantly improved accuracy and decreased reaction times to a similar extent (a) between the eyes of the amblyopic adults and (b) between the amblyopes and their age- and gender-matched controls. Moreover, deployment of voluntary attention away from the target location significantly impaired task performance (Experiment 2). The magnitudes of the involuntary and voluntary attention benefits did not correlate with amblyopic depth or severity. Both groups of observers showed canonical performance fields (better performance along the horizontal than vertical meridian and at the lower than upper vertical meridian) and similar effects of attention across locations. Despite their characteristic low-level vision impairments, covert spatial attention remains functionally intact in human amblyopic adults.
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