Competitive interactions of attentional resources in early visual cortex during sustained visuospatial attention within or between visual hemifields: evidence for the different-hemifield advantage

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Sabrina WalterMatthias M Mueller

Abstract

Performing a task across the left and right visual hemifields results in better performance than in a within-hemifield version of the task, termed the different-hemifield advantage. Although recent studies used transient stimuli that were presented with long ISIs, here we used a continuous objective electrophysiological (EEG) measure of competitive interactions for attentional processing resources in early visual cortex, the steady-state visual evoked potential (SSVEP). We frequency-tagged locations in each visual quadrant and at central fixation by flickering light-emitting diodes (LEDs) at different frequencies to elicit distinguishable SSVEPs. Stimuli were presented for several seconds, and participants were cued to attend to two LEDs either in one (Within) or distributed across left and right visual hemifields (Across). In addition, we introduced two reference measures: one for suppressive interactions between the peripheral LEDs by using a task at fixation where attention was withdrawn from the periphery and another estimating the upper bound of SSVEP amplitude by cueing participants to attend to only one of the peripheral LEDs. We found significantly greater SSVEP amplitude modulations in Across compared with Within hemif...Continue Reading

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Sep 25, 2015·Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience·Sabrina WalterMatthias M Müller
Jan 15, 2020·Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience·Valeria BekhterevaMatthias M Müller
Oct 4, 2020·Cortex; a Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior·Bo-Yeong WonJoy J Geng
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