Phenomenology of Joint Attention

The Phenomenology of Attention

The effect of attention on perceived brightness and contrast was investigated in eight experiments. Attention was manipulated by engaging observers in an attention-demanding concurrent task (letter detection) or by directing attention to a location with a peripheral cue. In all of the dual-task manipulations, attention reduced the variability of responses. However, attention did not affect the ...

Attention and Blind-Spot Phenomenology

The reliability of visual filling-in at the blind spot and how it is influenced by the distribution of spatial attention in and around the blind spot were studied. Our data suggest that visual filling-in at the blind spot is 1) less reliable than it has been assumed, and 2) easier under diffused attention around the blind spot than under focal attention restricted in the blind spot. These findi...

The Phenomenology of Joint Action: Self-Agency versus Joint Agency

The Phenomenology of Joint Action: Self-Agency vs. Joint-Agency

than at the motor level, yet still firmly anchored on a particular situation of actions rather than detached. To understand the proximal intentions of others, it is thus not enough that one be able to retrieve the immediate motor goal of an observed movement, one must also infer its possible significance given further information about the situation in which it occurs. Moreover, given that even...

Attention, Joint Attention, and Social Cognition.

Before social cognition there is joint processing of information about the attention of self and others. This joint attention requires the integrated activation of a distributed cortical network involving the anterior and posterior attention systems. In infancy, practice with the integrated activation of this distributed attention network is a major contributor to the development of social cogn...