Article
Psychology, Experimental
Diane Baier, Soonja Choi, Florian Goller, Yunju Nam, Ulrich Ansorge
Summary: By comparing native Korean and German speakers in an experiment, we found that language differences play a role in influencing the perception of visual features in non-linguistic tasks.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-GENERAL
(2023)
Article
Psychology
Gwen E. Savino, Todd A. Kahan
Summary: This study finds that both object substitution masking (OSM) and recovery are influenced by target-mask similarity. Even at short mask offset delays, recovery can be observed when the target and mask are dissimilar. The influence of object level and retinal level similarity on masking and recovery is most pronounced.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE
(2023)
Article
Ophthalmology
Tomoya Nakamura, Ikuya Murakami
Summary: This study reveals that conscious awareness of visual events does not arise instantaneously and requires a certain amount of time to evolve. Masking influences the phenomenal attributes of consciousness, with changes observed in orientation repulsion strength.
Article
Anatomy & Morphology
Alaz Aydin, Haluk Ogmen, Hulusi Kafaligonul
Summary: The study investigated metacontrast masking across different contrast polarities using a contour discrimination task and EEG. Results showed that changing mask polarity shifted the masking function from a U-shaped to a monotonic increasing function, strongly suppressing target visibility. EEG analyses revealed early and late spatiotemporal clusters associated with this polarity effect, suggesting the involvement of late recurrent inhibitory mechanisms in metacontrast masking.
BRAIN STRUCTURE & FUNCTION
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yusuke Nakashima, So Kanazawa, Masami K. Yamaguchi
Summary: According to the study, infants under 7 months of age are immune to visual backward masking and have immature recurrent processing. Therefore, they are able to perceive objects even without recurrent processing.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Bingbing Li, Luyao Jiang
Summary: This study investigated the unconscious processing of visual objects using the sandwich masking procedure and event-related potential (ERP), showing that unconscious processing is limited to early visual processing while higher-level visual processing is eliminated.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Nobuyuki Hirose, Shota Hattori, Shuji Mori
Summary: The study found that disrupting the object continuity of the previewed mask, such as by introducing a sudden surface color change, can reinstate the object substitution masking effect. The masking induced by color change exhibited two typical characteristics: target location specificity and the non-necessity of voluntary attention to the mask.
JAPANESE PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Juan Chen, Ye Zhang
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the influence of attention on the perception of targets in visual masking. Different forms of masks and temporal sequences were used, along with varying levels of processing of character targets. The results showed that the effect of masking varied with task demand and depth of processing, indicating that attention can bias processing in favor of task-relevant information.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Psychology
Thomas M. Spalek, Vincent Di Lollo
Summary: A brief visual display can create a sensation that lasts longer than the actual stimulus duration. However, experiments on the temporal integration of successive displays have underestimated the duration of visible persistence because the trailing frame can mask the visibility of the leading frame. Moreover, estimates based on single displays are also confounded by informational persistence.
ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
Nayantara Ramamoorthy, Oliver Jamieson, Nahiyan Imaan, Kate Plaisted-Grant, Greg Davis
Summary: Another person's gaze direction is a rich source of social information, which can influence visual search mechanisms, attentional guidance, and the construction of theory of mind.
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2021)
Article
Neurosciences
Canhuang Luo, Wei Chen, Rufin VanRullen, Ye Zhang, Carl Michael Gaspar
Summary: This study investigated the impact of inter-stimulus interval (ISI) on the relationship between the N170 and recognition potential (RP), revealing reverse relationships between ISI and N170 latency, N1 jitter, and reaction time. The unique scalp topographies at the N1 peak across different conditions, from the longest ISI (N170) to the shortest (RP), suggest that the mask-delayed N1 remains the same N170. The results indicate a greater synthesis in the study of event related potential components.
HUMAN BRAIN MAPPING
(2022)
Article
Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence
Haojie Zhao, Bin Yan, Dong Wang, Xuesheng Qian, Xiaoyun Yang, Huchuan Lu
Summary: This paper proposes a novel, robust, and real-time long-term tracking framework based on the local search module and re-detection module. The local search module includes an effective bounding box regressor and a target verifier, which can generate a series of candidate proposals and infer the optimal candidate with its confidence score. For local search, a long short-term updated scheme is designed to improve the target verifier. In terms of global re-detection, a novel re-detection module is developed to estimate the target position and target size for a given base tracker.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Michele Fornaciai, Joonkoo Park
Summary: Previous studies suggest that numerosity processing involves at least two temporal stages, possibly reflecting initial feedforward processing and feedback signals from higher-order cortical areas. By utilizing different experimental methods, the results demonstrate that feedback processing is not strictly necessary for the perceptual segmentation that gives rise to perceived numerosity, but suggest that different stages of feedforward activity in early visual areas may be sufficient to create a numerosity representation.
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Yangxi Wu, Dongbo Zhang, Feng Yin, Ying Zhang
Summary: This paper proposes a salient object detection model that integrates global and local perception based on visual search guidance. By using encoding and decoding networks, combined with the Maximal Stable External Regions (MSER) algorithm and Squeeze and-Excitation Networks (SENet), the model achieves accurate salient map through coarse global and fine local perception.
SIGNAL PROCESSING-IMAGE COMMUNICATION
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Evan W. Forest, Richard S. Kruk, Amy S. Desroches
Summary: Object substitution masking (OSM) involves reduced perceptibility by a briefly lingering mask despite no spatial target-mask overlap. Two primary accounts for this phenomenon posit differences in object representation in visual short-term memory (VSTM). In correct trials, the presence of target+mask and mask-alone as distinct memory representations was found in Easy Search only, with no differences in Difficult Search trials. The results suggest that individuation and perceptual load play a role in OSM.
Letter
Neurosciences
Eleanor J. Cole, Peter G. Enticott, Lindsay M. Oberman, M. Frampton Gwynette, Manuel F. Casanova, Scott L. J. Jackson, Ali Jannati, James C. McPartland, Adam J. Naples, Nicolaas A. J. Puts
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHIATRY
(2019)
Article
Neurosciences
Paula Davila-Perez, Ali Jannati, Peter J. Fried, Javier Cudeiro, Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Article
Neurosciences
Kilian Abellaneda-Perez, Lidia Vaque-Alcazar, Didac Vidal-Pineiro, Ali Jannati, Elisabeth Solana, Nuria Bargallo, Emiliano Santarnecchi, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, David Bartres-Faz
Article
Neurosciences
Ali Jannati, Peter J. Fried, Gabrielle Block, Lindsay M. Oberman, Alexander Rotenberg, Alvaro Pascual-Leone
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2019)
Article
Neurosciences
Timothy P. Morris, Paula Davila-Perez, Ali Jannati, Arianna Menardi, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Peter J. Fried
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Fae B. Kayarian, Ali Jannati, Alexander Rotenberg, Emiliano Santarnecchi
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Ali Jannati, Gabrielle Block, Mary A. Ryan, Harper L. Kaye, Fae B. Kayarian, Shahid Bashir, Lindsay M. Oberman, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Alexander Rotenberg
FRONTIERS IN INTEGRATIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2020)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Daniel T. Corp, Hannah G. K. Bereznicki, Gillian M. Clark, George J. Youssef, Peter J. Fried, Ali Jannati, Charlotte B. Davies, Joyce Gomes-Osman, Julie Stamm, Sung Wook Chung, Steven J. Bowe, Nigel C. Rogasch, Paul B. Fitzgerald, Giacomo Koch, Vincenzo Di Lazzaro, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Peter G. Enticott
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Archana A. Patel, Ali Jannati, Sameer C. Dhamne, Monica Sapuwa, Elizabeth Kalanga, Maitreyi Mazumdar, Gretchen L. Birbeck, Alexander Rotenberg
EPILEPSY & BEHAVIOR
(2020)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Recep A. Ozdemir, Pierre Boucher, Peter J. Fried, Davide Momi, Ali Jannati, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Emiliano Santarnecchi, Mouhsin M. Shafi
Summary: Recent research has shown significant variability in responses to TBS protocols, challenging the assumed reliability and lasting effects on cortical excitability. While TMS combined with EEG revealed stable responses to single pulse TMS across visits, the modulatory effects of TBS varied substantially both between and within individuals. The generally accepted mechanisms of TBS-induced neuromodulation through cortical excitability changes may not be accurate, highlighting the need for further research to understand the therapeutic effects of TBS in neuropsychiatry and examine the reproducibility of TBS-induced neuromodulation.
Article
Psychology
Daniel Tay, Ali Jannati, Jessica J. Green, John J. McDonald
Summary: The salience-driven selection theory suggests that the most salient stimulus captures attention, and the only way to prevent distraction is by focusing attention elsewhere. This study disconfirmed this theory by showing that goal-driven processes can prevent the attentional capture of salient visual objects.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Carrie A. Hinchman, Peter J. Fried, Ali Jannati, Daniel Z. Press, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Adam P. Stern
Summary: This study aimed to investigate whether modulation of corticomotor excitability by rTMS predicts response to rTMS treatment for treatment-resistant depression (TRD). The results showed that higher post-10 Hz MEP change predicted greater improvement on the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II) and Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D). However, this relationship was not observed with intermittent theta-burst stimulation (iTBS).
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Mustafa Q. Hameed, Nathaniel Hodgson, Henry H. C. Lee, Andres Pascual-Leone, Paul C. MacMullin, Ali Jannati, Sameer C. Dhamne, Takao K. Hensch, Alexander Rotenberg
Summary: Weeks-long post-traumatic NAC treatment can mitigate persistent oxidative stress and protect PVI integrity, as well as prevent pathological EEG changes, after traumatic brain injury.
Review
Neurosciences
Ali Jannati, Lindsay M. Oberman, Alexander Rotenberg, Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Summary: Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a promising non-invasive technique for the diagnosis and treatment of neurological and psychiatric disorders. This review focuses on repetitive TMS (rTMS) protocols and their metrics of brain plasticity, such as theta-burst stimulation (TBS). It also discusses the use of TMS-EEG technique, neuronavigation, and the effects of age and genetic factors on TBS aftereffects. Furthermore, it summarizes alterations of TMS-TBS measures of plasticity in major neurological and psychiatric disorders.
NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Alisa Pasichnik, Melissa Tsuboyama, Ali Jannati, Clemente Vega, Harper L. Kaye, Ugur Damar, Jeffrey Bolton, Scellig S. D. Stone, Joseph R. Madsen, Ralph O. Suarez, Alexander Rotenberg
Summary: This study reports the results of fMRI and nTMS language mapping in 19 pediatric epilepsy patients and compares them with definitive testing. The study found that in cases where fMRI showed right-hemispheric language, nTMS showed left-hemispheric or bilateral language representation, and this was confirmed by definitive testing. Therefore, it is proposed that nTMS should be considered for pediatric presurgical language mapping when fMRI shows right-hemispheric language.
ANNALS OF CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL NEUROLOGY
(2022)