Dimensionally Specific Capture of Attention: Implications for Saliency Computation
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Observers automatically orient to a sudden change in the environment. This is demonstrated experimentally using exogenous cues, which prioritize the analysis of subsequent targets appearing nearby. This effect has been attributed to the computation of saliency, obtained by combining features specific signals, which then feed back to drive attention to the salient location. An alternative possibility is that cueing directly effects target-evoked sensory responses in a feed-forward manner. We examined the effects of luminance and equiluminant color cues in a dual task paradigm, which required both a motion and a color discrimination. Equiluminant color cues improved color discrimination more than luminance cues, but luminance cues improved motion discrimination more than equiluminant color cues. This suggests that the effects of exogenous cues are dimensionally specific and may not depend entirely on the computation of a dimension general saliency signal.
Keywords
- Attention, exogenous cuing, sailency signal, Luminance, Motion discrimination, color discrimination
Original language | English |
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Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Vision |
Volume | 2 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 17 Feb 2018 |
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