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ArticleAttention, perception & psychophysics2025

Dynamic modulation of spatial selection: Online and anticipatory adjustments in the flanker task.

Mercedes B Villalonga, Abigail L Noyce, Robert Sekuler

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Mercedes B VillalongaDepartment of Psychology, Brandeis University, 415 South Street MS 062, Waltham, MA, 02453, USA. mbv0@brandeis.edu.
Abigail L NoyceNeuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Robert SekulerDepartment of Psychology, Brandeis University, 415 South Street MS 062, Waltham, MA, 02453, USA.

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Predoctoral research training at the interface of brain, body, and behaviorT32GM132498 · NIGMS · BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY · PI PAUL DIZIO, ANGELA GUTCHESS · 2019 to 2026
$1.6M
NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM132498Office of Naval Research ONR MURI N00014-19-12332
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Abstract

To track the spatiotemporal dynamics of selective attention, we constructed four theory-driven variants of Eriksen's flanker task. In each, subjects made speeded binary categorizations of target arrowhead direction while ignoring surrounding flanker arrowheads, whose direction was either congruent or incongruent to the target. Experiment 1 tracked the temporal evolution of target selection by systematically manipulating onset asynchrony between the target and flankers. In Experiments 2A and 2B, we increased flanker strength (both experiments) and reduced target strength (Experiment 2B only) at various times relative to target onset, exploring the effects of dynamic perceptual inputs on flanker congruency effects. Experiment 3 measured how uncertainty about stimulus location impeded spatial selection. Our findings demonstrate that spatial selection in the flanker task is dynamically modulated by both intra- and supra-trial factors.

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Anticipation, PsychologicalAttentionOrientationOrientation, SpatialPattern Recognition, VisualSpace PerceptionAdultFemaleHumansMalePsychomotor PerformanceReaction TimeYoung Adult

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PMID39979542
PMCPMC11965244

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