ArticleJournal of vision2019
How exogenous spatial attention affects visual representation.
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- A Bayesian inference model can predict the effects of attention on the serial dependence in heading estimation from optic flow.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- Featural Representation and Internal Noise Underlie the Eccentricity Effect in Contrast Sensitivity.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Metacognition tracks sensitivity following involuntary shifts of visual attention.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Article
- Differential Effects of Endogenous and Exogenous Attention on Sensory Tuning.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022Article
- Time-dependent inhibition of covert shifts of attention.Experimental brain research · 2021Article
- To look or not to look: dissociating presaccadic and covert spatial attention.Trends in neurosciences · 2021Review
- 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
- Spatial Attention and Saccade Preparation Both Independently Contribute to the Discrimination of Oblique Orientations.Advances in cognitive psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Orienting covert spatial attention to a target location enhances visual sensitivity and benefits performance in many visual tasks. How these attention-related improvements in performance affect the underlying visual representation of low-level visual features is not fully understood. Here we focus on characterizing how exogenous spatial attention affects the feature representations of orientation and spatial frequency. We asked observers to detect a vertical grating embedded in noise and performed psychophysical reverse correlation. Doing so allowed us to make comparisons with previous studies that utilized the same task and analysis to assess how endogenous attention and presaccadic modulations affect visual representations. We found that exogenous spatial attention improved performance and enhanced the gain of the target orientation without affecting orientation tuning width. Moreover, we found no change in spatial frequency tuning. We conclude that covert exogenous spatial attention alters performance by strictly boosting gain of orientation-selective filters, much like covert endogenous spatial attention.
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