Contents of the Attentional Set Revealed by the Negative Spatial Cueing Effect

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young Eun Park ◽  
Haein Jung ◽  
Yang Seok Cho
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Set ◽  
Spatial Cueing ◽  
Cueing Effect

Attention-shift vs. response-priming explanations for the spatial cueing effect in cross-modal tasks

2016 ◽  
Vol 57 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petri Paavilainen ◽  
Janne Illi ◽  
Nella Moisseinen ◽  
Maija Niinisalo ◽  
Karita Ojala ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Attention Shift ◽  
Response Priming ◽  
Spatial Cueing ◽  
Cueing Effect

scholarly journals Spatial cueing effect is not what we thought- An eye movement experiment

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 679
Author(s):  
Mor Sasi ◽  
Daniel Toledano ◽  
Dominique Lamy
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movement ◽  
Spatial Cueing ◽  
Cueing Effect

scholarly journals What's the point? Infants' and adults' perception of different pointing gestures

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ebru Ger ◽  
Stephanie Wermelinger ◽  
Maxine de Ven ◽  
Moritz M. Daum
Keyword(s):  
Index Finger ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
First Year ◽  
Eye Tracker ◽  
Spatial Cueing ◽  
Cueing Effect ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Pointing Gestures ◽  
Saccadic Reaction Times

Adults and infants as young as 4 months old follow pointing gestures. Although adults are shown to orient faster to index-finger pointing compared to other hand shapes, it is not known whether hand shapes influence infants' following of pointing. In this study, we used a spatial cueing paradigm on an eye tracker to investigate whether and to what extent adults and 12-month-old infants orient their attention in the direction of pointing gestures with different hand shapes: index finger, whole hand, and pinky finger. Results revealed that adults showed a cueing effect, that is, shorter saccadic reaction times (SRTs) to congruent compared to incongruent targets, for all hand shapes. However, they did not show a larger cueing effect triggered by the index finger. This contradicts previous findings and is discussed with respect to the differences in methodology. Infants showed a cueing effect only for the whole hand but not for the index finger or the pinky finger. Infants predominantly point with the whole hand prior to 12 months. The current results thus suggest that infants' perception of pointing gestures may be linked to their own production of pointing gestures. Infants may show a cueing effect by the conventional index-finger pointing shape later than their first year, possibly when they start to point predominantly with their index finger.

The effects of attentional set on saccades

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naseem Al-Aidroos ◽  
Jay Pratt
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Set

Eyes Gaze Cueing Effect: Endogenous or Exogenous Processing Mechanism?

2009 ◽  
Vol 41 (12) ◽  
pp. 1133-1142
Author(s):  
Ya-Jun ZHAO ◽  
Zhi-Jun ZHANG
Keyword(s):  
Gaze Cueing ◽  
Cueing Effect ◽  
Processing Mechanism

scholarly journals BDNF haploinsufficiency induces behavioral endophenotypes of schizophrenia in male mice that are rescued by enriched environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud Harb ◽  
Justina Jagusch ◽  
Archana Durairaja ◽  
Thomas Endres ◽  
Volkmar Leßmann ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Prepulse Inhibition ◽  
Sensorimotor Gating ◽  
Enriched Environment ◽  
Fear Learning ◽  
Set Shifting ◽  
Wild Type ◽  
Mature Adult ◽  
Attentional Set ◽  
Attentional Set Shifting ◽  
The Brain

AbstractBrain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is implicated in a number of processes that are crucial for healthy functioning of the brain. Schizophrenia is associated with low BDNF levels in the brain and blood, however, not much is known about BDNF’s role in the different symptoms of schizophrenia. Here, we used BDNF-haploinsufficient (BDNF+/−) mice to investigate the role of BDNF in different mouse behavioral endophenotypes of schizophrenia. Furthermore, we assessed if an enriched environment can prevent the observed changes. In this study, male mature adult wild-type and BDNF+/− mice were tested in mouse paradigms for cognitive flexibility (attentional set shifting), sensorimotor gating (prepulse inhibition), and associative emotional learning (safety and fear conditioning). Before these tests, half of the mice had a 2-month exposure to an enriched environment, including running wheels. After the tests, BDNF brain levels were quantified. BDNF+/− mice had general deficits in the attentional set-shifting task, increased startle magnitudes, and prepulse inhibition deficits. Contextual fear learning was not affected but safety learning was absent. Enriched environment housing completely prevented the observed behavioral deficits in BDNF+/− mice. Notably, the behavioral performance of the mice was negatively correlated with BDNF protein levels. These novel findings strongly suggest that decreased BDNF levels are associated with several behavioral endophenotypes of schizophrenia. Furthermore, an enriched environment increases BDNF protein to wild-type levels and is thereby able to rescue these behavioral endophenotypes.

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