On spatial attention and its field size on the repulsion effect

Elizabeth K. Cutrone; David J. Heeger; Marisa Carrasco

doi:10.1167/18.6.8

The effects of spatial attention and population receptive field size estimation on fMRI topographic mapping signals

Journal of Vision ◽

10.1167/8.6.803 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 8 (6) ◽

pp. 803-803

Author(s):

D. Bressler ◽

M. Silver

Keyword(s):

Receptive Field ◽

Spatial Attention ◽

Field Size ◽

Topographic Mapping ◽

Size Estimation ◽

Receptive Field Size

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FSRFNet: Feature-Selective and Spatial Receptive Fields Networks

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app9193954 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 9 (19) ◽

pp. 3954 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ma ◽

Yang ◽

Yu

Keyword(s):

Receptive Field ◽

Spatial Attention ◽

Cognitive Neuroscience ◽

Cortical Neurons ◽

Network Architecture ◽

Receptive Fields ◽

Field Size ◽

Visual Cortical ◽

Neuroscience Community ◽

Architectural Unit

The attention mechanism plays a crucial role in the human visual experience. In the cognitive neuroscience community, the receptive field size of visual cortical neurons is regulated by the additive effect of feature-selective and spatial attention. We propose a novel architectural unit called a “Feature-selective and Spatial Receptive Fields” (FSRF) block that implements adaptive receptive field sizes of neurons through the additive effects of feature-selective and spatial attention. We show that FSRF blocks can be inserted into the architecture of existing convolutional neural networks to form an FSRF network architecture, and test its generalization capabilities on different datasets.

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Different computations underlie overt and covert spatial attention

10.1101/2020.07.22.215905 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Hsin-Hung Li ◽

Jasmine Pan ◽

Marisa Carrasco

Keyword(s):

Eye Movements ◽

Visual Attention ◽

Spatial Attention ◽

Covert Attention ◽

Field Size ◽

Saccade Target ◽

Computational Process ◽

Visual Responses ◽

Saccade Onset ◽

Attention Deployment

AbstractPerception and action are tightly coupled: visual responses at the saccade target are enhanced right before saccade onset. This phenomenon, presaccadic attention, is a form of overt attention—deployment of visual attention with concurrent eye movements. Presaccadic attention is well-documented, but its underlying computational process remains unknown. This is in stark contrast with covert attention—deployment of visual attention without concurrent eye movements—for which the computational process is well characterized. Here, a series of psychophysical experiments reveal that presaccadic attention modulates visual performance only via response gain changes even when attention field size increases, violating the predictions of a normalization model of attention, which has been widely used to explain the computations underlying covert attention. Our empirical results and model comparisons reveal that the perceptual modulations by overt and covert spatial attention are mediated through different computations.

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Interactions Between Exogenous Auditory and Visual Spatial Attention

The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A ◽

10.1080/027249800390691 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 53 (1) ◽

pp. 105-130 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Michel Schmitt ◽

Albert Postma ◽

Edward De Haan

Keyword(s):

Spatial Attention ◽

Visual Spatial Attention ◽

Visual Spatial

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Visual Spatial Attention in Migraine Sufferers in Postictal and Interictal Phases: An Event-Related Potential Study

Journal of Psychophysiology ◽

10.1027//0269-8803.15.1.22 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 15 (1) ◽

pp. 22-34 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

D.H. de Koning ◽

J.C. Woestenburg ◽

M. Elton

Keyword(s):

Cerebral Cortex ◽

Visual Attention ◽

Migraine Attack ◽

Spatial Attention ◽

Event Related Potential ◽

Significant Enhancement ◽

Pathophysiological Mechanism ◽

Attention Task ◽

Visual Spatial Attention ◽

Visual Spatial

Migraineurs with and without aura (MWAs and MWOAs) as well as controls were measured twice with an interval of 7 days. The first session of recordings and tests for migraineurs was held about 7 hours after a migraine attack. We hypothesized that electrophysiological changes in the posterior cerebral cortex related to visual spatial attention are influenced by the level of arousal in migraineurs with aura, and that this varies over the course of time. ERPs related to the active visual attention task manifested significant differences between controls and both types of migraine sufferers for the N200, suggesting a common pathophysiological mechanism for migraineurs. Furthermore, migraineurs without aura (MWOAs) showed a significant enhancement for the N200 at the second session, indicating the relevance of time of measurement within migraine studies. Finally, migraineurs with aura (MWAs) showed significantly enhanced P240 and P300 components at central and parietal cortical sites compared to MWOAs and controls, which seemed to be maintained over both sessions and could be indicative of increased noradrenergic activity in MWAs.

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