Attention alters appearance.

by: M Carrasco, S Ling, S Read

Nat Neurosci, Vol. 7, No. 3. (March 2004), pp. 308-313.

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Abstract

Does attention alter appearance? This critical issue, debated for over a century, remains unsettled. From psychophysical evidence that covert attention affects early vision-it enhances contrast sensitivity and spatial resolution-and from neurophysiological evidence that attention increases the neuronal contrast sensitivity (contrast gain), one could infer that attention changes stimulus appearance. Surprisingly, few studies have directly investigated this issue. Here we developed a psychophysical method to directly assess the phenomenological correlates of attention in humans. We show that attention alters appearance; it boosts the apparent stimulus contrast. These behavioral results are consistent with neurophysiological findings suggesting that attention changes the strength of a stimulus by increasing its 'effective contrast' or salience.

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TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1301603 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1301603 TI - Attention alters appearance. JF - Nat Neurosci VL - 7 IS - 3 SP - 308 EP - 313 AD - Department of Psychology, New York University, 6 Washington Place, New York, New York 10003, USA. marisa.carrasco@nyu.edu SN - 1097-6256 N2 - Does attention alter appearance? This critical issue, debated for over a century, remains unsettled. From psychophysical evidence that covert attention affects early vision-it enhances contrast sensitivity and spatial resolution-and from neurophysiological evidence that attention increases the neuronal contrast sensitivity (contrast gain), one could infer that attention changes stimulus appearance. Surprisingly, few studies have directly investigated this issue. Here we developed a psychophysical method to directly assess the phenomenological correlates of attention in humans. We show that attention alters appearance; it boosts the apparent stimulus contrast. These behavioral results are consistent with neurophysiological findings suggesting that attention changes the strength of a stimulus by increasing its 'effective contrast' or salience. KW - attention AU - Carrasco, M AU - Ling, S AU - Read, S PY - 2004/03// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nn1194 ER -

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