ReviewPsychonomic bulletin & review2020
A critical review of the cognitive and perceptual factors influencing attentional scaling and visual processing.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.
- Eye-brain connection: an altered profile of spatial attention in myopia.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Attention spotlight in V1-based cortico-cortical interactions in human visual hierarchy.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Broadening of attention dilates the pupil.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- Emphasis on peripheral vision is accompanied by pupil dilation.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2023Article
- The spatial extent of focused attention modulates attentional disengagement.Psychological research · 2023Article
- When cognitive control harms rather than helps: individuals with high working memory capacity are less efficient at infrequent contraction of attentional breadth.Psychological research · 2021Article
- Cultural differences in performance on Eriksen's flanker task.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2021Article
- Time and time again: a multi-scale hierarchical framework for time-consciousness and timing of cognition.Neuroscience of consciousness · 2021Article
- Relationship Between Task-Based and Parent Report-Based Measures of Attention and Executive Function in Children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD).Journal of pediatric neuropsychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
An important mechanism used to selectively process relevant information in the environment is spatial attention. One fundamental way in which spatial attention is deployed is attentional scaling - the process of focusing attentional resources either narrowly or broadly across the visual field. Although early empirical work suggested that narrowing attention improves all aspects of visual processing, recent studies have demonstrated that narrowing attention can also have no effect or even a detrimental impact when it comes to vision that is thought to be mediated via the magnocellular pathway of the visual system. Here, for the first time, we synthesize empirical evidence measuring the behavioral effects of attentional scaling on tasks gauging the contribution of the major neural pathways of the visual system, with the purpose of determining the potential factors driving these contradictory empirical findings. This analysis revealed that attentional scaling could be best understood by considering the unique methodologies used in the research literature to date. The implications of this analysis for theoretical frameworks of attentional scaling are discussed, and methodological improvements for future research are proposed.
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