Orienting attention to locations in mental representations

Orienting attention to locations in internal representations.

Three experiments investigated whether it is possible to orient selective spatial attention to internal representations held in working memory in a similar fashion to orienting to perceptual stimuli. In the first experiment, subjects were either cued to orient to a spatial location before a stimulus array was presented (pre-cue), cued to orient to a spatial location in working memory after the ...

Directing spatial attention to locations within remembered and imagined mental representations

Spatial attention enables us to enhance the processing of items at target locations, at the expense of items presented at irrelevant locations. Many studies have explored the neural correlates of these spatial biases using event-related potentials (ERPs). More recently some studies have shown that these ERP correlates are also present when subjects search visual short-term memory (VSTM). This s...

Orienting attention to semantic categories

We investigated the ability to orient attention to a complex, non-perceptual attribute of stimuli-semantic category. Behavioral consequences and neural correlates of semantic orienting were revealed and compared with those of spatial orienting, using event-related functional magnetic-resonance imaging. Semantic orienting significantly shortened response times to identify word stimuli, showing t...

Attention to baseline: does orienting visuospatial attention really

21 Standard protocols testing the orientation of visuospatial attention usually present 22 spatial cues before targets, and compare valid-cue trials to invalid-cue trials. The valid/invalid 23 contrast results in a relative behavioural or physiological difference that is generally 24 interpreted as a benefit of attention orientation. However, growing evidence suggests that 25 inhibitory control...

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