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- Title
Object-based attention requires monocular visual pathways.
- Authors
Strommer, N.; Al-Janabi, S.; Greenberg, A. S.; Gabay, S.
- Abstract
Mechanisms of object-based attention (OBA) are commonly associated with the cerebral cortex. However, less is known about the involvement of subcortical visual pathways in these processes. Knowledge of the neural mechanisms subserving OBA can provide insight into the evolutionary trajectory of attentional selection. In the current study, the classic double-rectangle cueing task was implemented using a stereoscope in order to differentiate between the involvement of lower (monocular) and higher (binocular) visual pathways in OBA processes. We found that monocular visual pathways are involved in two main aspects of OBA: exogenous orienting towards a cued object (Experiment 1; N =33) and attentional deployment within a cued object (Experiment 2; N =23); this is evident by the presence of OBA only when both the cue and target were presented to the same eye. Thus, these results indicate that monocular (mostly subcortical) visual regions are not simply passing information to higher cortical areas but have a functional computational role in OBA. These findings emphasize the importance of lower regions in attentional processes and, more specifically, in OBA.
- Subjects
VISUAL pathways; CEREBRAL cortex; MONOCULARS
- Publication
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2024, Vol 31, Issue 4, p1880
- ISSN
1069-9384
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/s13423-024-02467-7