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The Limits of Predictive Remapping of Attention Across Eye Movements
With every eye movement, visual input projected onto our retina changes drastically. The fundamental question of how we keep track of relevant objects and movement targets has puzzled scientists for more than a century. Recent advances suggested that this can be accomplished through the process of p...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6543634/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31178788 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01146 |
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author | Arkesteijn, Kiki Belopolsky, Artem V. Smeets, Jeroen B. J. Donk, Mieke |
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description | With every eye movement, visual input projected onto our retina changes drastically. The fundamental question of how we keep track of relevant objects and movement targets has puzzled scientists for more than a century. Recent advances suggested that this can be accomplished through the process of predictive remapping of visual attention to the future post-saccadic locations of relevant objects. Evidence for the existence of predictive remapping of attention was first provided by Rolfs et al. (2011) (Nature Neuroscience, 14, 252–256). However, they used a single distant control location away from the task-relevant locations, which could have biased the allocation of visual attention. In this study we used a similar experimental paradigm as Rolfs et al. (2011), but probed attention equally likely at all possible locations. Our results showed that discrimination performance was higher at the remapped location than at a distant control location, but not compared to the other two control locations. A re-analysis of the results obtained by Rolfs et al. (2011) revealed a similar pattern. Together, these findings suggest that it is likely that previous reports of the predictive remapping of attention were due to a diffuse spread of attention to the task-relevant locations rather than to a specific shift toward the target’s future retinotopic location. |
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spelling | pubmed-65436342019-06-07 The Limits of Predictive Remapping of Attention Across Eye Movements Arkesteijn, Kiki Belopolsky, Artem V. Smeets, Jeroen B. J. Donk, Mieke Front Psychol Psychology With every eye movement, visual input projected onto our retina changes drastically. The fundamental question of how we keep track of relevant objects and movement targets has puzzled scientists for more than a century. Recent advances suggested that this can be accomplished through the process of predictive remapping of visual attention to the future post-saccadic locations of relevant objects. Evidence for the existence of predictive remapping of attention was first provided by Rolfs et al. (2011) (Nature Neuroscience, 14, 252–256). However, they used a single distant control location away from the task-relevant locations, which could have biased the allocation of visual attention. In this study we used a similar experimental paradigm as Rolfs et al. (2011), but probed attention equally likely at all possible locations. Our results showed that discrimination performance was higher at the remapped location than at a distant control location, but not compared to the other two control locations. A re-analysis of the results obtained by Rolfs et al. (2011) revealed a similar pattern. Together, these findings suggest that it is likely that previous reports of the predictive remapping of attention were due to a diffuse spread of attention to the task-relevant locations rather than to a specific shift toward the target’s future retinotopic location. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-05-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6543634/ /pubmed/31178788 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01146 Text en Copyright © 2019 Arkesteijn, Belopolsky, Smeets and Donk. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Arkesteijn, Kiki Belopolsky, Artem V. Smeets, Jeroen B. J. Donk, Mieke The Limits of Predictive Remapping of Attention Across Eye Movements |
title | The Limits of Predictive Remapping of Attention Across Eye Movements |
title_full | The Limits of Predictive Remapping of Attention Across Eye Movements |
title_fullStr | The Limits of Predictive Remapping of Attention Across Eye Movements |
title_full_unstemmed | The Limits of Predictive Remapping of Attention Across Eye Movements |
title_short | The Limits of Predictive Remapping of Attention Across Eye Movements |
title_sort | limits of predictive remapping of attention across eye movements |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6543634/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31178788 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01146 |
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