TY - JOUR
T1 - Different computations underlie overt presaccadic and covert spatial attention
AU - Li, Hsin Hung
AU - Pan, Jasmine
AU - Carrasco, Marisa
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by National Institutes of Health grant R01EY019693 (to M.C.). H.-H.L. was supported by NIH grant R90DA043849. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish or preparation of the paper. We thank members of the Carrasco Laboratory, in particular A. Fernández, N. Hanning and M. Jigo.
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© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited.
PY - 2021/10
Y1 - 2021/10
N2 - Perception and action are tightly coupled: visual responses at the saccade target are enhanced right before saccade onset. This phenomenon, presaccadic attention, is a form of overt attention—deployment of visual attention with concurrent eye movements. Presaccadic attention is well-documented, but its underlying computational process remains unknown. This is in stark contrast to covert attention—deployment of visual attention without concurrent eye movements—for which the computational processes are well characterized by a normalization model. Here, a series of psychophysical experiments reveal that presaccadic attention modulates visual performance only via response gain changes. A response gain change was observed even when attention field size increased, violating the predictions of a normalization model of attention. Our empirical results and model comparisons reveal that the perceptual modulations by overt presaccadic and covert spatial attention are mediated through different computations.
AB - Perception and action are tightly coupled: visual responses at the saccade target are enhanced right before saccade onset. This phenomenon, presaccadic attention, is a form of overt attention—deployment of visual attention with concurrent eye movements. Presaccadic attention is well-documented, but its underlying computational process remains unknown. This is in stark contrast to covert attention—deployment of visual attention without concurrent eye movements—for which the computational processes are well characterized by a normalization model. Here, a series of psychophysical experiments reveal that presaccadic attention modulates visual performance only via response gain changes. A response gain change was observed even when attention field size increased, violating the predictions of a normalization model of attention. Our empirical results and model comparisons reveal that the perceptual modulations by overt presaccadic and covert spatial attention are mediated through different computations.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41562-021-01099-4
DO - 10.1038/s41562-021-01099-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 33875838
AN - SCOPUS:85104847588
SN - 2397-3374
VL - 5
SP - 1418
EP - 1431
JO - Nature Human Behaviour
JF - Nature Human Behaviour
IS - 10
ER -