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ArticleMolecular psychology : brain, behavior, and society2022

Spatial attention in natural tasks [version 1; peer review: 2 approved with reservations].

Melville Wohlgemuth, Angeles Salles, Cynthia Moss

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Article in Molecular psychology : brain, behavior, and society, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 19% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Melville WohlgemuthDepartment of Neuroscience, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA.
Angeles SallesDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, 60607, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5726-4256
Cynthia MossDepartment of Psychological & Brain Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 21218, USA.
Johns Hopkins University · USUniversity of Arizona · USUniversity of Illinois Chicago · US

Funding

Auditory-based navigation: attentional shifts rapidly modulate hippocampal codesR01NS121413 · NINDS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI MOSS, CYNTHIA F, ULANOVSKY, NACHUM · 2021 to 2025
$2.2M
Neural processing of communication sounds: acoustic features and semantic contentR00DC019145 · NIDCD · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI SALLES, ANGELES · 2022 to 2024
$841k
Optical tools to probe neural circuits in the echolocating batR34NS118462 · NINDS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI KUCHIBHOTLA, KISHORE V, WOHLGEMUTH, MELVILLE J · 2020 to 2020
$705k
Neural processing of communication sounds: acoustic features and semantic contentK99DC019145 · NIDCD · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI SALLES, ANGELES · 2021 to 2022
$125k
NIDCD NIH HHS K99 DC019145NIDCD NIH HHS R00 DC019145NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS121413NINDS NIH HHS R34 NS118462
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Little is known about fine scale neural dynamics that accompany rapid shifts in spatial attention in freely behaving animals, primarily because reliable indicators of attention are lacking in standard model organisms engaged in natural tasks. The echolocating bat can serve to bridge this gap, as it exhibits robust dynamic behavioral indicators of overt spatial attention as it explores its environment. In particular, the bat actively shifts the aim of its sonar beam to inspect objects in different directions, akin to eye movements and foveation in humans and other visually dominant animals. Further, the bat adjusts the temporal features of sonar calls to attend to objects at different distances, yielding a metric of acoustic gaze along the range axis. Thus, an echolocating bat's call features not only convey the information it uses to probe its surroundings, but also provide fine scale metrics of auditory spatial attention in 3D natural tasks. These explicit metrics of overt spatial attention can be leveraged to uncover general principles of neural coding in the mammalian brain.

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batschiropteraecholocationneuroethologysuperior colliculus

Identifiers

PMID37325441
PMCPMC10269881
OpenAlexW4312098433

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