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Pinging the brain to reveal the hidden attentional priority map using encephalography
Attention has been usefully thought of as organized in priority maps – putative maps of space where attentional priority is weighted across spatial regions in a winner-take-all competition for attentional deployment. Recent work has highlighted the influence of past experiences on the weighting of s...
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10406833/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37550310 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40405-8 |
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author | Duncan, Dock H. van Moorselaar, Dirk Theeuwes, Jan |
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description | Attention has been usefully thought of as organized in priority maps – putative maps of space where attentional priority is weighted across spatial regions in a winner-take-all competition for attentional deployment. Recent work has highlighted the influence of past experiences on the weighting of spatial priority – called selection history. Aside from being distinct from more well-studied, top-down forms of attentional enhancement, little is known about the neural substrates of history-mediated attentional priority. Using a task known to induce statistical learning of target distributions, in an EEG study we demonstrate that this otherwise invisible, latent attentional priority map can be visualized during the intertrial period using a ‘pinging’ technique in conjunction with multivariate pattern analyses. Our findings not only offer a method of visualizing the history-mediated attentional priority map, but also shed light on the underlying mechanisms allowing our past experiences to influence future behavior. |
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spelling | pubmed-104068332023-08-09 Pinging the brain to reveal the hidden attentional priority map using encephalography Duncan, Dock H. van Moorselaar, Dirk Theeuwes, Jan Nat Commun Article Attention has been usefully thought of as organized in priority maps – putative maps of space where attentional priority is weighted across spatial regions in a winner-take-all competition for attentional deployment. Recent work has highlighted the influence of past experiences on the weighting of spatial priority – called selection history. Aside from being distinct from more well-studied, top-down forms of attentional enhancement, little is known about the neural substrates of history-mediated attentional priority. Using a task known to induce statistical learning of target distributions, in an EEG study we demonstrate that this otherwise invisible, latent attentional priority map can be visualized during the intertrial period using a ‘pinging’ technique in conjunction with multivariate pattern analyses. Our findings not only offer a method of visualizing the history-mediated attentional priority map, but also shed light on the underlying mechanisms allowing our past experiences to influence future behavior. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-08-07 /pmc/articles/PMC10406833/ /pubmed/37550310 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40405-8 Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Duncan, Dock H. van Moorselaar, Dirk Theeuwes, Jan Pinging the brain to reveal the hidden attentional priority map using encephalography |
title | Pinging the brain to reveal the hidden attentional priority map using encephalography |
title_full | Pinging the brain to reveal the hidden attentional priority map using encephalography |
title_fullStr | Pinging the brain to reveal the hidden attentional priority map using encephalography |
title_full_unstemmed | Pinging the brain to reveal the hidden attentional priority map using encephalography |
title_short | Pinging the brain to reveal the hidden attentional priority map using encephalography |
title_sort | pinging the brain to reveal the hidden attentional priority map using encephalography |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10406833/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37550310 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-40405-8 |
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