Attention induces conservative subjective biases in visual perception
Publication year
2011Source
Nature Neuroscience, 14, (2011), pp. 1513-1514ISSN
Publication type
Article / Letter to editor
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PI Group Predictive Brain
Former Organization
F.C. Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging
Journal title
Nature Neuroscience
Volume
vol. 14
Page start
p. 1513
Page end
p. 1514
Subject
180 000 Predictive BrainAbstract
Although attention usually enhances perceptual sensitivity, we found that it can also lead to relatively conservative detection biases and lower visibility ratings in discrimination tasks. These results are explained by a model in which attention reduces the trial-by-trial variability of the perceptual signal, and we determined how this model led to the observed behavior. These findings may partially reflect our impression of 'seeing' the whole visual scene despite our limited processing capacity outside of the focus of attention.
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