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ArticleiScience2023

Stimulus salience conflicts and colludes with endogenous goals during urgent choices.

Emily E Oor, Terrence R Stanford, Emilio Salinas

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Article in iScience, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Signal suppression makes search less effortful.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026
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  4. Contributions of Distinct Attention Mechanisms to Saccadic Choices in a Gamified, Dynamic Environment.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  9. Coupling of saccade plans to endogenous attention during urgent choices.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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Authors and funding

3 authors.

Emily E OorDepartment of Neurobiology & Anatomy, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA.
Terrence R StanfordDepartment of Neurobiology & Anatomy, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA.
Emilio SalinasDepartment of Neurobiology & Anatomy, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC 27157, USA.

Funding

CRCNS: investigating perceptual processing speed and its impact on choice behaviorR01EY025172 · NEI · WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES · PI SALINAS, EMILIO, STANFORD, TERRENCE R · 2016 to 2024
$3.6M
NEI NIH HHS R01 EY025172
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Selecting where to look next depends on both the salience of objects and current goals (what we are looking for), but discerning their relative contributions over the time frame of typical visuomotor decisions (200-250 ms) has been difficult. Here we investigate this problem using an urgent choice task with which the two contributions can be dissociated and tracked moment by moment. Behavioral data from three monkeys corresponded with model-based predictions: when salience favored the target, perceptual performance evolved rapidly and steadily toward an asymptotic level; when salience favored the distracter, many rapid errors were produced and the rise in performance took more time-effects analogous to oculomotor and attentional capture. The results show that salience has a brief (∼50 ms) but inexorable impact that leads to exogenous, involuntary capture, and this can either help or hinder performance, depending on the alignment between salience and ongoing internal goals.

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Behavioral neuroscienceCognitive neuroscience

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PMID36922998
PMCPMC10009283

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