Article
Psychology, Biological
Petia Kojouharova, Boglarka Nagy, Istvan Czigler, Zsofia Anna Gaal
Summary: The contextual cueing effect refers to the phenomenon in visual search where response time becomes faster when the same context is repeated compared to a new context. This study aimed to investigate if the mechanisms involved in this effect are age-dependent. The study was conducted with younger (N = 20, 12 women, 21.2 +/- 1.75 years) and older (N = 19, nine women, 67.05 +/- 3.94 years) adults. The results showed that both age groups exhibited a faster target identification in repeated configurations, indicating that the contextual cueing effect remained intact in older participants. The underlying mechanisms were found to differ between the two age groups, with younger adults showing early and intermediate loci related to attentional allocation and stimulus categorization, while older adults showed a late locus related to more efficient response organization.
Article
Neurosciences
Sanjay Kumar, M. Jane Riddoch, Glyn W. Humphreys
Summary: Study shows that the possibility of action to an object facilitates attentional deployment, making target selection easier when action information is congruent with an object's use.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Roberto Dell'Acqua, Mattia Doro, Sabrina Brigadoi, Brandi Lee Drisdelle, Amour Simal, Valentina Baro, Pierre Jolicoeur
Summary: The N2pc event-related potential and its analogous component N2pcb were studied using two different algorithms, and both algorithms were found to properly estimate the components. Additionally, a new component called the posterior processing positivity (PPP) was discovered, which could be observed using a combination of features and showed that bilateral activity elicited by target-absent displays is an adequate baseline for its correct isolation.
Article
Psychology, Biological
Kristen S. Baker, Naohide Yamamoto, Alan J. Pegna, Patrick Johnston
Summary: This study investigated the interaction between prediction and attention in visual perception using event-related potentials. The findings revealed that incorrect predictions increase neural activity and that prediction and attention interact differently in different stages of visual perception.
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Qingfei Chen, Feng Xiao, Yan Liu, Mengqing Li, Xiuling Liang
Summary: This study investigated the time course of temporal proximity using event-related potentials (ERPs) and an associative judgment task. The results showed shorter response time and higher accuracy for image pairs with high temporal proximity. ERP results revealed a larger N2 for unrelated pairs and a larger P3 and positive slow wave for pairs with high temporal proximity. These findings indicate that different temporal proximities affect cognitive processing differently.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Neurosciences
James K. Moran, Julian Keil, Alexander Masurovsky, Stefan Gutwinski, Christiane Montag, Daniel Senkowski
Summary: This study found that patients with schizophrenia showed reduced intersensory attention effects for unisensory stimuli compared to healthy controls, but not for bisensory stimuli. At the neural level, schizophrenia patients exhibited decreased intersensory attention effects for bisensory stimuli. However, there were no significant differences between schizophrenia patients and healthy controls in terms of multisensory integration.
Article
Neurosciences
Gorka Fraga-Gonzalez, Sarah Di Pietro, Georgette Pleisch, Susanne Walitza, Daniel Brandeis, Iliana I. Karipidis, Silvia Brem
Summary: Number processing abilities are crucial for academic and personal development. This study investigated the visual N1 sensitivity to digits in children at different ages and found that the sensitivity is already present in kindergarten and remains stable until fifth grade. The developmental trajectory of digit sensitivity differs from the trajectory of sensitivity to words or letters, suggesting unique importance for visual processing of written characters relevant to numeracy and literacy.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Alon Zivony, Martin Eimer
Summary: When identifying an object in a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) stream, observers often make errors by reporting a distractor instead of the target. Two experiments examined whether these errors are associated with the speed of attentional engagement. The results showed that distractor intrusions are closely linked to the timing of selective attention allocation, making the intrusion paradigm a valuable tool for studying the temporal dynamics of attention.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Psychology
Carola Dolci, C. Nico Boehler, Elisa Santandrea, Anneleen Dewulf, Suliann Ben-Hamed, Emiliano Macaluso, Leonardo Chelazzi, Einat Rashal
Summary: The present study investigates how the competition between visual elements is resolved through top-down and/or statistical learning attentional control mechanisms. The results suggest that the winner element is selected either by one prevailing AC mechanism or by the joint activity of both mechanisms. The study provides evidence that top-down control and statistical learning work together during target selection, with the latter being reduced when reliable top-down guidance is present.
ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Yingli Li, Juan Du, Qingfang Song, Sina Wu, Lihong Liu
Summary: The study explored the neuropsychological processing basis of gender stereotypes associated with pink and blue colors in contemporary Chinese society. Results showed that pink-masculine stimuli elicited stronger gender stereotypical interference compared to blue-masculine stimuli, as seen in longer response times and lower accuracy in participants. ERP findings identified distinct neural processing stages for pink-masculine stimuli, shedding light on the neural mechanism underlying gender-color stereotypes in Chinese culture.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Alon Zivony, Martin Eimer
Summary: The study suggests that distractor intrusion errors are common in rapid serial visual presentation tasks, making target identification challenging. Electrophysiological markers reveal that the occurrence of distractor intrusions is due to delayed attentional engagement.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-GENERAL
(2021)
Review
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Shih-Chun Kao, Feng-Tzu Chen, David Moreau, Eric S. Drollette, Steve Amireault, Chien-Heng Chu, Yu-Kai Chang
Summary: Although the acute effect of exercise on behavioral cognitive performance is well-documented, there is a lack of comprehensive evaluation on neuroelectric brain activity that determines healthy cognitive functioning. This systematic review included 39 studies and found that exercise has small effects on increasing attentional resources and processing speed for categorizing a stimulus. These effects can be moderated by factors such as age, type, intensity, and duration of exercise.
INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SPORT AND EXERCISE PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Yucheng Huang, Ziwang Xiao, Eksan Firkat, Jinlai Zhang, Danfeng Wu, Askar Hamdulla
Summary: The emergence of ACMix integrates convolution and self-attention mechanisms, but faces challenges in associating temporal sequences and achieving accurate feature sampling. To address these issues, we propose the Spatio-Temporal Deformable Mix Feature Extractor (STD-ME) and introduce Spatial-Temporal Transformation (STT) for generating continuous data.
EXPERT SYSTEMS WITH APPLICATIONS
(2024)
Article
Neurosciences
M. M. Holdford, Z. R. Holloway, J. J. Sable, F. Andrasik, H. J. K. Sable
Summary: Long-latency auditory evoked potentials (LLAEPs) have the potential to provide insights into consciousness under general anesthesia and assess sedation depth objectively. While the auditory N1 component shows promise, research on LLAEPs under anesthesia in animals is lacking. Preliminary findings suggest that isoflurane may globally suppress LLAEP components, reflecting impaired integration of attention and sensory systems during profound sedation.
NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Julian Elias Reiser, Stefan Arnau, Gerhard Rinkenauer, Edmund Wascher
Summary: Modern living and working environments involve concurrent execution of locomotion and sensory processing, especially in the visual domain. Walking without impediments can enhance the processing of peripheral visual information and may not always impede cognitive processing and performance.
Article
Neurosciences
Anna Leonte, Lorenza S. Colzato, Laura Steenbergen, Bernhard Hommel, Elkan G. Akyurek
BRAIN AND COGNITION
(2018)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Elkan G. Akyurek, Eria Wijnja
Article
Neurosciences
Michael J. Wolff, Guven Kandemir, Mark G. Stokes, Elkan G. Akyurek
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2020)
Article
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Michael J. Wolff, Janina Jochim, Elkan G. Akyurek, Timothy J. Buschman, Mark G. Stokes
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Matthijs Pals, Terrence C. Stewart, Elkan G. Akyurek, Jelmer P. Borst
PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
(2020)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Ahmet Altinok, Aytac Karabay, Elkan G. Akyurek
Summary: This study aimed to examine the acute influence of cocoa flavanols on visual working memory. The results indicated that cocoa flavanols did not enhance either passive maintenance or active updating of visual working memory.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NUTRITION
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Aytac Karabay, Sophia A. Wilhelm, Joost de Jong, Jing Wang, Sander Martens, Elkan G. Akyurek
Summary: The study showed that perceptual awareness during the attentional blink can be a gradual phenomenon, especially when attention spans multiple locations. Mental representations of blinked targets were found to be impoverished but approaching the actual identities of the targets under these circumstances.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-GENERAL
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Ivory Y. Chen, Aytac Karabay, Sebastiaan Mathot, Howard Bowman, Elkan G. Akyurek
Summary: The study explores the feasibility of detecting concealed identity information at an individual level using rapid serial visual presentation and pupillometry. The results show that the method can effectively detect concealed identity information at a group level, but further development is needed to create a valid and reliable individual-level concealed identity information detector.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Gulsen Balta, Guven Kandemir, Elkan G. Akyurek
Summary: Previous research has shown that more information can be stored in visual working memory when multiple items belong to the same object. In this study, the object effect on memory for spatially equidistant features was investigated. The results revealed that two target features were remembered more accurately when both were part of the same object, and the probability of recall increased when both features were extracted from the same object. This suggests that the object benefit arises automatically, likely at an early perceptual level.
PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH-PSYCHOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Joost de Jong, Hedderik van Rijn, Elkan G. Akyurek
Summary: Humans can adapt to the speed of complex patterns unfolding, such as encoding a grocery list at different rates. Working memory plays a crucial role in integrating information over different timescales, but adaptive tuning of encoding speed has not been studied yet. Through experiments, it was found that young adults could encode at a faster rate when they were adapted to overall and recent stimulus duration. Surprisingly, participants couldn't consciously use cues to speed up encoding, even though these cues were more informative than statistical information. This suggests that adaptive tuning of encoding speed in working memory is a fundamental but implicit mechanism.
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Elkan G. Akyurek, Gulsen Balta
Summary: This study investigated visual temporal integration, specifically how multiple stimuli appearing in rapid succession are perceived as a single event. The results showed that both intrinsic and extrinsic factors have an interactive effect on integration performance, with distinct effects on the event-related potential components. This study provides important insights into the neural mechanisms underlying temporal integration and its impact on perception of longer episodic events.
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
Joost de Jong, Elkan G. Akyurek, Hedderik van Rijn
Summary: The estimation of time is influenced by global and local statistical context, with short durations being overestimated compared to the global distribution, and durations following long durations also being overestimated. Two models, the internal reference model and the Bayesian account of time estimation, were compared and tested, with results supporting the Bayesian perspective on time estimation.
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Gulsen Balta, Monicque M. Lorist, Elkan G. Akyurek
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Jefta D. Saija, Deniz Baskent, Tjeerd C. Andringa, Elkan G. Akyurek
PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH-PSYCHOLOGISCHE FORSCHUNG
(2019)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Aytac Karabay, Elkan G. Akyurek