期刊
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 112, 期 49, 页码 15214-15219出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1511331112
关键词
visual search; attention; nonuniform; sequential; periodic
资金
- European Young Investigator Award
- European Research Council Consolidator Grant Perceptual-CYCLES [614244]
- European Union [600785]
Difficult search tasks are known to involve attentional resources, but the spatiotemporal behavior of attention remains unknown. Are multiple search targets processed in sequence or in parallel? We developed an innovative methodology to solve this notoriously difficult problem. Observers performed a difficult search task during which two probes were flashed at varying delays. Performance in reporting probes at each location was considered a measure of attentional deployment. By solving a second-degree equation, we determined the probability of probe report at the most and least attended probe locations on each trial. Because these values differed significantly, we conclude that attention was focused on one stimulus or subgroup of stimuli at a time, and not divided uniformly among all search stimuli. Furthermore, this deployment was modulated periodically over time at similar to 7 Hz. These results provide evidence for a nonuniform spatiotemporal deployment of attention during difficult search.
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