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Psychology, Mathematical
Stefanie I. Becker, Rheaa T. Manoharan, Charles L. Folk
Summary: Visual attention can be tuned or biased based on specific feature values or relative features of sought-after objects, driving covert attention and eye movements in visual search. The relational account of attention can be extended to explain attentional engagement and selection of continuously attended objects in time, beyond spatial attention.
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2021)
Article
Ophthalmology
Sebastian Pichlmeier, Till Pfeiffer
Summary: The study found that sudden onset distractors can disrupt probe detection during multiple object tracking, demonstrating the presence of attentional capture. However, tracking performance remains unaffected, indicating the ability to effectively manage strong disruptions of attention during tracking.
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Drazen Domijan, Mateja Maric
Summary: Accentuation has been proposed as a general principle of perceptual organization. This study developed a neurodynamic architecture to explain how accentuation affects boundary segmentation and shape perception. The model was tested on various computer simulations and texture segregation tasks, demonstrating comparable performance to human observers. The results suggest the importance of accentuation in visual processing for selecting competing percepts of ambiguous stimuli.
Article
Neurosciences
Nika Adamian, Soren K. Andersen
Summary: The limitations of multiple object tracking (MOT) stem from the limitations of top-down selective attention at the early stages of visual processing. The magnitude of attentional facilitation of tracked targets decreases with increasing set size, and it closely follows inverse proportionality to the number of tracked items at lateral occipital electrodes.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Han Liang, Seong-Cheol Lee, Suyoung Seo
Summary: An efficient lightweight road damage detection network is proposed in this paper, which can accurately identify and classify multiple types of road damage. The network utilizes multi-scale feature fusion and embedded lightweight attention module, resulting in higher performance and fewer parameters.
Article
Neurosciences
Rene Michel, Laura Dugue, Niko A. Busch
Summary: Studies have found that visual perception and attention operate in rhythmic patterns, often associated with perceptual snapshots. Experiment results show differences in rhythms in invalid cue trials, suggesting distinct roles in environmental sampling.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
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)
Article
Neurosciences
Prapasiri Sawetsuttipan, Phond Phunchongharn, Kajornvut Ounjai, Annalisa Salazar, Sarigga Pongsuwan, Singh Intrachooto, John T. Serences, Sirawaj Itthipuripat
Summary: Perceptual difficulty and selective attention are two distinct factors that can modulate the gain of neural responses in early sensory areas. Previous studies have found conflicting evidence regarding the effect of perceptual difficulty on gain modulations in the visual cortex. This study used EEG to examine the relationship between perceptual difficulty and attentional gain in the visual cortex, and found a nonlinear inverted-U relationship, suggesting that perceptual difficulty mediates attention-related changes in perceptual performance.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2023)
Article
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)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Kyungseo Min, Gun-Hee Lee, Seong-Whan Lee
Summary: This paper proposes a new feature pyramid architecture named AFPN, which enhances the small object detection ability through three components: Dynamic Texture Attention, Foreground-Aware Co-Attention, and Detail Context Attention. The method achieves state-of-the-art or even better performance on multiple datasets, especially in the detection of small objects.
Article
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)
Article
Psychology
Cathleen M. Moore, Sihan He, Qingzi Zheng, J. Toby Mordkoff
Summary: Contrary to previous beliefs, this study found that flankers with the same color as the target do not necessarily lead to larger flanker-congruence effects (FCE). This suggests that similarity effects on FCE may not reflect the obligatory selection of perceptually grouped flankers and targets, but instead depend on differential support for image segmentation.
ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS
(2021)
Article
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.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Jiakai Wang, Aishan Liu, Xiao Bai, Xianglong Liu
Summary: Adversarial patches are a method of attacking deep neural networks with strong generalization ability. This paper proposes a bias-based framework that utilizes perceptual bias and attentional bias to improve attack capability. Experimental results demonstrate that this framework outperforms existing adversarial patch attack methods.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Mitchell R. P. LaPointe, Tamara M. Rosner, Javier Ortiz-Tudela, Lisa Lorentz, Bruce Milliken
Summary: This study examines the combined influence of attentional boost and perceptual degradation on recognition memory and finds no redundancy in memory performance. This suggests that these two manipulations may lead to different memory effects in different situations.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Ayelet Arazi, Yaffa Yeshurun, Ilan Dinstein
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2019)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Asaf Elbaz, Yaffa Yeshurun
Article
Neurosciences
A. Vialatte, Y. Yeshurun, A. Z. Khan, R. Rosenholtz, L. Pisella
Summary: Simultanagnosia is a deficit in processing multiple visual elements simultaneously due to bilateral posterior parietal damage. Research found that patients with focal and bilateral SPL lesions performed slower in visual search tasks involving separable lines. When surrounded by distracters, the patient's ability to identify objects dropped, but improved when given specific search instructions.
Article
Psychology
Ilanit Hochmitz, Elisabeth Hein, Yaffa Yeshurun
Summary: This study investigates the effects of endogenous attention on temporal integration using the Ternus display, finding that directing attention to object locations in advance prolongs the period over which information is integrated, as evidenced by an increased perception of element motion.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
Shira Tkacz-Domb, Yaffa Yeshurun
Summary: Temporal crowding impairs target encoding and increases substitution errors without reducing signal-to-noise ratio. It is a unique phenomenon different from ordinary masking and spatial crowding, affecting the precision of target encoding even with relatively long interitem intervals.
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Felipe Luzardo, Yaffa Yeshurun
Summary: This study found that individual levels of internal noise are correlated with the effects of sustained attention and transient attention, although in opposite directions. This highlights the intricate relations between perception and attention.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Tomer Sahar, Yaffa Yeshurun
Summary: This study investigated temporal crowding, the impaired object identification when distracting objects precede and succeed the target. The study found clear evidence of temporal crowding in central vision, with reduced encoding precision as a unique characteristic. The magnitude of temporal crowding was similar in central and peripheral vision, indicating the involvement of higher visual areas. The impairment of precision emerged even when only the target contained orientation information, underscoring the importance of orientation-selective mechanisms.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-GENERAL
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Yaffa Yeshurun, Shira Tkacz-Domb
Summary: Voluntary temporal attention has a significant impact on perceptual processing, showing high effectiveness and a twofold faster mechanism than voluntary spatial attention. These findings challenge the common assumption that voluntary processes are inherently slow, highlighting the flexibility and dynamic nature of voluntary mechanisms.
Article
Criminology & Penology
Badi Hasisi, Tomer Carmel, David Weisburd, Michael Wolfowicz
JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE CRIMINOLOGY
(2020)
Article
Criminology & Penology
David Weisburd, Badi Hasisi, Yael Litmanovitz, Tomer Carmel, Shani Tshuva
CRIMINOLOGY & PUBLIC POLICY
(2020)
Article
Family Studies
Tomer Carmel, Cathy Spatz Widom
CHILD ABUSE & NEGLECT
(2020)
Review
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Yaffa Yeshurun
CURRENT OPINION IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2019)
Meeting Abstract
Psychology, Experimental
Yaffa Yeshurun, Satoshi Shioiri
Meeting Abstract
Psychology, Experimental
Yaffa Yeshurun
Meeting Abstract
Ophthalmology
Yaffa Yeshurun, Shira Tkacz-Domb
Article
Neurosciences
Ryan P. Silk, Hanagh R. Winter, Ouria Dkhissi-Benyahya, Carmella Evans -Molina, Alan W. Stitt, Vijay K. Tiwari, David A. Simpson, Eleni Beli
Summary: This study investigates whether diabetes affects the daily rhythm of gene expression in the retina. The results show that diabetic mice exhibited phase advancement in the expression of certain genes compared to non-diabetic mice. The study also identified oxygen-sensing mechanisms and HIF1alpha as potential upstream regulators. These findings provide important insights into the development of diabetic retinopathy.
Article
Neurosciences
Krishnamachari S. Prahalad, Daniel R. Coates
Summary: Visual stimuli presented around the time of a saccade can be perceived differently by the visual system, including a reduction in the harmful impact of flankers. This study investigated the effects of microsaccades on crowded stimuli placed 20 arc minutes from the center of gaze. The findings suggest two separate pre-saccadic benefits, one that regularizes the crowding zone and another that specifically benefits microsaccade targets surrounded by tangential flankers.
Article
Neurosciences
Chandrika Ravisankar, Christopher W. Tyler, Clifton M. Schor, Shrikant R. Bharadwaj
Summary: This study revealed that less than one-third of adults with normal binocular vision were able to successfully free-fuse random-dot image pairs and identify the embedded stereoscopic shapes. The successful participants showed a dissociation of vergence and accommodative responses, while the unsuccessful ones either exhibited strong vergence and accommodation or weak vergence and strong accommodation. Task performance of the unsuccessful cluster improved significantly with pharmacological paralysis of accommodation. A minority of participants also learned to dissociate one direction of their vergence and accommodation crosslinks with repeated free-fusion trials, optimizing their task performance.