ArticleJournal of vision2018
Attention alters spatial resolution by modulating second-order processing.
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- Frequency-selective contrast sensitivity modulation driven by fine-tuned exogenous attention at the foveal scale.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 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
- Asymmetries in foveal vision.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Endogenous attention biases transformational apparent motion based on high-level shape representations.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- Differential Effects of Endogenous and Exogenous Attention on Sensory Tuning.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
- Voluntary attention improves performance similarly around the visual field.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2021Article
- An image-computable model of how endogenous and exogenous attention differentially alter visual perception.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
- To look or not to look: dissociating presaccadic and covert spatial attention.Trends in neurosciences · 2021Review
- Asymmetries in visual acuity around the visual field.Journal of vision · 2021Article
- Differential impact of endogenous and exogenous attention on activity in human visual cortex.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Differential impact of exogenous and endogenous attention on the contrast sensitivity function across eccentricity.Journal of vision · 2020Article
- How exogenous spatial attention affects visual representation.Journal of vision · 2019Article
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Endogenous and exogenous visuospatial attention both alter spatial resolution, but they operate via distinct mechanisms. In texture segmentation tasks, exogenous attention inflexibly increases resolution even when detrimental for the task at hand and does so by modulating second-order processing. Endogenous attention is more flexible and modulates resolution to benefit performance according to task demands, but it is unknown whether it also operates at the second-order level. To answer this question, we measured performance on a second-order texture segmentation task while independently manipulating endogenous and exogenous attention. Observers discriminated a second-order texture target at several eccentricities. We found that endogenous attention improved performance uniformly across eccentricity, suggesting a flexible mechanism that can increase or decrease resolution based on task demands. In contrast, exogenous attention improved performance in the periphery but impaired it at central retinal locations, consistent with an inflexible resolution enhancement. Our results reveal that endogenous and exogenous attention both alter spatial resolution by differentially modulating second-order processing.
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