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Michael Marxen, Mark J. Jacob, Lydia Hellrung, Philipp Riedel, Michael N. Smolka
Summary: Our study investigated the correlation between BOLD activity and RTs in the context of emotional distractor effects. Results showed significant regression coefficients in regions such as the anterior insula, supplementary motor cortex, medial precentral regions, and sensory-motor areas, but not in the amygdala. Subjects exhibiting a stronger RT distractor effect across trials also showed a stronger BOLD valence contrast in the right anterior insula but not in the amygdala.
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(2021)
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Stefanie I. Becker, Rheaa T. Manoharan, Charles L. Folk
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PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Michael Marxen, Johanna E. Graff, Philipp Riedel, Michael N. Smolka
Summary: The study demonstrates a novel method called CTMC that allows the extraction of relative timing information of regional brain activity during attention capture. It reveals that early activity in the dorsal anterior insula is predictive of behavioral performance, while signals from the amygdala and ventral anterior insula are not. This finding provides new insights into the brain's salience processing and emphasizes the role of the dorsal anterior insula in this context.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2023)
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Joel D. Bowen, Carissa V. Alforque, Michael A. Silver
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Nora Turoman, Ruxandra Tivadar, Chrysa Retsa, Anne M. Maillard, Gaia Scerif, Pawel J. Matusz
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DEVELOPMENTAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Valeria Oliva, Rob Gregory, Wendy-Elizabeth Davies, Lee Harrison, Rosalyn Moran, Anthony E. Pickering, Jonathan C. W. Brooks
Summary: Pain can be alleviated by shifting attention elsewhere, and the brainstem regions including locus coeruleus, rostral ventromedial medulla, and periaqueductal grey are involved in attentional analgesia. Functional interactions between these regions and the cortex modulate nociceptive input to reduce pain, particularly in situations requiring conflicting attentional demands.
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Neurosciences
Armien Lanssens, Dante Mantini, Hans Op de Beeck, Celine R. Gillebert
Summary: In day-to-day activities, stimulus representations in the visual cortex are modulated based on their attentional priority. This study found that the activity of subregions in the fronto-parietal dorsal attention network and the visual cortex is modulated by feature-based attentional weighting.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
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Psychology
Xiaojin Ma, Richard A. Abrams
Summary: A recent study shows that people can suppress salient singleton distractors of unknown color when they search for the most prevalent shapes in a display. However, previous studies had limitations such as higher likelihood of salient distractors, similar shape to relevant objects, limited color options, fixed shape of distractors, and unique shape different from search targets. This study addresses these limitations and confirms the ability to suppress distractors regardless of color.
ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS
(2023)
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Neurosciences
Nihong Chen, Hailin Ai, Xincheng Lu
Summary: Using fMRI, this study investigates the background connectivity between the pulvinar and V1 in relation to focused and diffused attention allocation. The findings suggest that focused attention enhances the correlations between the pulvinar and V1, with the modulation initiated by the pulvinar and dependent on the saliency of the target. This study reveals the role of the pulvinar in information reweighting for attentional selection in cluttered scenes.
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Psychology
Sang A. Cho, Yang Seok Cho
Summary: The study found that uncertainty modulates value-based attentional capture in terms of strength and persistence, with attentional bias induced by uncertainty disappearing earlier than that induced by certainty.
ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Hossein Abbasi, Dominik Doetsch, Anna Schuboe
Summary: The neurophysiological processes of representing a partner's task in joint action have been investigated in a cooperative and competitive social context. The results showed that the presence of the partner target influenced attentional processing, with attentional capture in the cooperative condition and suppression in the competitive condition. This attentional tuning was modulated by social context and the presence of the agent's own target.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
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Psychology
Brad T. Stilwell, Nicholas Gaspelin
Summary: The study indicates that although there has been a debate in visual attention research about whether physically salient objects have an automatic power to capture attention, the current experiments support the signal suppression hypothesis, which suggests that salient items can be proactively suppressed via top-down control to prevent attentional capture.
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(2021)
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Psychology
Xiaojin Ma, Richard A. Abrams
Summary: Recent findings have shown that people can proactively inhibit salient visual distractors by knowing their color, enhancing efficient search. However, a modification to the search task reveals that people can indeed suppress salient uniquely colored distractors even without prior knowledge of their color. This suppressive mechanism improves visual processing efficiency.
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(2023)
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Haoyue Ji, Tian Yuan, Yiwen Yu, Li Wang, Yi Jiang
Summary: Previous research has shown that internally maintained social cues in working memory can induce attentional orienting, which cannot be solely explained by perceptual-attentional processes. Non-social cues, such as arrows, do not elicit a similar attentional-orienting effect as social cues when held in working memory.
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(2022)
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Valeria Oliva, Robert Gregory, Jonathan C. W. Brooks, Anthony E. Pickering
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(2016)
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Feng Du, Jun Jiao
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(2016)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yanan Chen, Feng Du
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2017)
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Psychology, Biological
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(2018)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Richard Carciofo, Jiaoyan Yang, Nan Song, Feng Du, Kan Zhang
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Mengnuo Dai, Yanju Li, Shuoqiu Gan, Feng Du
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(2019)
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Behavioral Sciences
Jingyu Zhang, Xiaotian E, Feng Du, Jiazhong Yang, Shayne Loft
Summary: By testing the network disentangling model, this study investigated ATCos' conflict resolution performance. The results show that NRI influences the number of interventions and mental workload of ATCos, and the model predictions are robust.
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Computer Science, Cybernetics
Bingxin Li, Zheng Wei, Tong Yang, Yanfang Liu, Feng Du
Summary: This study compares three list scrolling gestures on a mobile phone: sliding to scroll, moving a regular scrollbar, and scrolling through alphabetic index. It finds that scrolling through alphabetic index is the fastest regardless of target locations. The study also reveals that sliding to scroll has shorter reaction time for near-reaching targets, but longer reaction time for far-reaching targets. The evaluation scores of alphabetic index increase over time, while those of sliding to scroll decrease. The different rating patterns before and after the task are attributed to fatigue and emotional changes. This study provides insights into users' mental models for three list scrolling gestures and their implications for future gesture design.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
(2023)
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Yue Qi, Xiaotao Wang, Xiaosong He, Feng Du
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2019)
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Psychology, Mathematical
Huimin Hua, Jie Zhang, Yanju Li, Feng Du
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2019)
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Psychology, Experimental
Feng Du, Xiaotao Wang, Richard A. Abrams, Kan Zhang
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Psychology, Social
Richard Carciofo, Nan Song, Feng Du, Michelle M. Wang, Kan Zhang
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(2017)
Proceedings Paper
Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications
Feng Du, Jie Zhang, Mengnuo Dai
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