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Neurosciences
Tobias Feldmann-Wustefeld, Marina Weinberger, Edward Awh
Summary: Research has shown that active suppression of salient distractors is a crucial aspect of visual selection. The study provides clear evidence for a spatial gradient of suppression surrounding salient singleton distractors, with target selection improving as the distance between target and distractor increases.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
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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.
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Neurosciences
Grace M. Clements, Mate Gyurkovics, Kathy A. Low, Arthur F. Kramer, Diane M. Beck, Monica Fabiani, Gabriele Gratton
Summary: EEG alpha power can reflect the demand of visual attention and also process stimuli in other sensory modalities, including hearing. The study found that alpha dynamics during an auditory task varied with competition from the visual modality, suggesting its involvement in multimodal processing. When preparing to attend to the auditory modality, greater alpha suppression was induced during switching compared to repeating, indicating a switch effect. No switch effect was observed when preparing to attend to visual information. This study suggests that alpha band activity can index a general attention control mechanism used across modalities.
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Neurosciences
Norman Forschack, Christopher Gundlach, Steven Hillyard, Matthias M. Muller
Summary: This study used electrophysiological measures to investigate how attention is allocated to target and distractor stimuli in visual search with a small set-size. The results showed that the early proactive suppression hypothesis was not supported, and the attention allocation pattern in the two-stimulus search task is an initial capture of attention by all color-change stimuli followed by a further focusing of attention on the target.
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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
Christopher Gundlach, Norman Forschack, Matthias M. Mueller
Summary: Feature-based attention helps us separate relevant features from irrelevant ones. The nature and factors of neural suppressive interactions in the global amplification mechanism of feature-based attention are not well understood. Our study found that suppression is mandatory for all unattended features, regardless of their task relevance.
Article
Construction & Building Technology
Jinjing Ke, Ming Zhang, Xiaowei Luo, Jiayu Chen
Summary: In a construction environment requiring high attention, distraction leads to unsafe behavior and decreased safety performance. This study used EEG to examine the correlation between distraction and brain activity, suggesting that beta and gamma powers in specific brain regions can differentiate between focused and distracted states, providing objective evaluation of sustained attention and attention failures. These indicators can also guide attention training and enhance control over work errors in high-risk workplaces.
AUTOMATION IN CONSTRUCTION
(2021)
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Chemistry, Analytical
Zhilin Gao, Xingran Cui, Wang Wan, Zeguang Qin, Zhongze Gu
Summary: This paper proposes a new wearable frontal EEG device called Mindeep and conducts a signal quality study. The stability of Mindeep's circuit is tested using simulated signals, and the high correlation coefficients (>0.9) demonstrate its reliability. Comparison experiments with the gold standard device Neuroscan show that Mindeep is capable of recording high-quality EEG signals. Additionally, Mindeep outperforms Neuroscan in attention tasks.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Aimee Martin, Stefanie I. Becker, Alan J. Pegna
Summary: Threatening/fearful stimuli capture attention more efficiently; brain activity in fear-relevant areas is enhanced more by stimuli situated close to viewers; personal distance significantly affects neural responses to emotional stimuli, with increased attention towards fearful faces in close distance.
Article
Neurosciences
John E. Kiat, Taylor R. Hayes, John M. Henderson, Steven J. Luck
Summary: Research has found that meaning maps can predict eye movement patterns more effectively than physical saliency in natural scene viewing. This suggests that the brain rapidly extracts the spatial distribution of semantically informative scene regions. This study used representational similarity analysis to demonstrate the link between physical saliency, semantic informativeness, and neural responses.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jacob A. Westerberg, Elizabeth A. Sigworth, Jeffrey D. Schall, Alexander Maier
Summary: The research indicates that attention plays a significant role in feature selectivity during visual search, especially in enhancing feature tuning in deep neural layers, which directly affects attentional functions and behavioral outcomes.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Daniel Feuerriegel, Jane Yook, Genevieve L. Quek, Hinze Hogendoorn, Stefan Bode
Summary: This study investigated the visual mismatch responses (VMRs) using oddball designs and found the importance of distinguishing between commonplace and unusual sensory events. The results indicated that VMRs primarily index surprise responses, while effects of expectation suppression were absent.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Christina Koessmeier, Oliver B. Buettner
Summary: This study examined the impact of smartphone presence on work performance and found that the mere presence of smartphones did not have a negative effect. However, smartphones did draw visual attention during breaks and transitions between tasks. Additionally, smartphone presence increased vigilance towards smartphones but did not affect task performance.
COMPUTERS IN HUMAN BEHAVIOR
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Jessica Lunn, Nick Berggren, Jamie Ward, Sophie Forster
Summary: Both visual and multisensory distractors can elicit spatial attentional capture, but there is no evidence to suggest enhanced competition from multisensory distractors. This research provides insights into the role of irrelevant distractors in attentional capture.
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Psychology, Applied
Changcheng Shi, Fuwu Yan, Jiawen Zhang, Hao Yu, Fumin Peng, Lirong Yan
Summary: Electroencephalogram (EEG) was used to analyze the differences in brain area activation between different types of driving distractions and normal driving. The study found that visual distraction activated the right intraorbital superior frontal gyrus and right infraorbital frontal gyrus significantly, auditory distraction activated the superior frontal gyrus and right dorsolateral region significantly, and cognitive distraction activated the right intraorbital superior frontal gyrus, right infraorbital frontal gyrus, superior frontal gyrus, and right dorsolateral region significantly. The study also revealed that auditory distracted driving had the least effect on vehicle control, while cognitive distracted driving had the greatest effect.
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART F-TRAFFIC PSYCHOLOGY AND BEHAVIOUR
(2023)