کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
8795331 1603156 2018 15 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The influence of endogenous attention on contrast perception, contrast discrimination, and saccadic reaction time
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
تأثیر توجه اندوژن بر روی تصور کنتراست، تبعیض کنتراست و زمان واکنش ساکادیک
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی سیستم های حسی
چکیده انگلیسی
Visual spatial attention has been shown to influence both contrast detection and suprathreshold contrast perception, as well as manual and saccadic reaction times (SRTs). Because SRTs are influenced also by stimulus contrast, we investigated if the enhancement of perceived contrast that accompanies attention could account for the shorter SRTs observed for attended targets locations. We conducted two dual-task experiments to assess psychophysical and oculomotor responses to non-foveal targets of various contrast for different spatial-attention-cueing conditions. Cues were either: valid, an arrow at fixation pointing in the direction of the upcoming target; invalid, an arrow pointing in a different direction from the target; or neutral, a small circle instead of an arrow. In both experiments, subjects were instructed to make a saccade to the location of a subsequent, briefly flashed target. In the first experiment, the psychophysical judgment was a two-alternative-forced-choice (2AFC) contrast-detection task, in which subjects reported whether the flashed target was at a near (3°) or far (6°) eccentricity. In the second experiment, the judgment was a contrast matching task, in which subjects reported whether the target's contrast was higher or lower than a remembered standard contrast. The results exhibit a robust, ∼40-50 ms reduction of SRTs with a valid compared to an invalid cue. Cueing effects on contrast detection and matching were small and inconsistent across subjects. Hence, the observed decrease in SRTs could not be accounted for fully by an enhancement in the target's effective contrast due to attention, as attended and unattended targets that were equally detectable or were perceived to have the same suprathreshold contrast showed substantial differences in SRT.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Vision Research - Volume 143, February 2018, Pages 89-102
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