Attention to visual motion suppresses neuronal and behavioral sensitivity in nearby feature space

Abstract

Feature-based attention prioritizes the processing of the attended feature while strongly suppressing the processing of nearby ones. This creates a non-linearity or “attentional suppressive surround” predicted by the Selective Tuning model of visual attention. However, previously reported effects of feature-based attention on neuronal responses are linear, e.g., feature-similarity gain. Here, we investigated this apparent contradiction by neurophysiological and psychophysical approaches.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Oct 05, 2022
Source ID
10.1186/s12915-022-01428-7

Entities

People

  • John Tsotsos
  • Julio C. Martinez-trujillo
  • Mazyar Fallah
  • Sang-Ah Yoo
  • Stefan Treue

Organizations

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  • Canada Research Chair
  • Canadian Institutes of Health Research
  • Canadian Network for Research and Innovation in Machining Technology, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
  • German Primate Centre
  • German Research Foundation
  • Western University

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Psychology

Readers

  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Computer Vision.
  • Neuroscience

Technology Areas

  • Space
  • Space - Space Objects