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Conference Paper: The spatial distribution of visual attention

TitleThe spatial distribution of visual attention
Authors
KeywordsDistribution of attention
Endogenous
Split attention
Sustained
Visual search
Issue Date2004
PublisherPergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/visres
Citation
Vision Research, 2004, v. 44 n. 12, p. 1273-1296 How to Cite?
AbstractWe use a novel search task to investigate the spatial distribution of visual attention, developing a general model from the data. Observers distribute attention to locations defined by stripes with a high penalty for attention to intervening areas. Attended areas are defined by a square-wave grating. A target is in one of the even stripes, and ten false targets (identical to the real target) are in the odd stripes; the observer must attend the even stripes and strongly ignore the odd, reporting the location of the target. As the spatial frequency of the grating increases, performance declines. Variations on this task inform a model that incorporates stimulus input, a "low pass" attentional modulation transfer function, and an acuity function to produce a strength map from which the location with the highest strength is selected. A feature-strength map that adds to the attention map enables the model to predict the results of attention-cued conjunction search experiments, and internal noise enables it to predict the outcome of double-pass experiments and of variations in the number of false targets. The model predicted performance on a trial-by-trial basis for three observers, accounting for approximately 70% of the trials. Actual trial-to-trial variation for an observer, using the double-pass method, is about 76%. For any requested distribution of spatial attention, this general model makes a prediction of the actually achieved distribution. © 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/168885
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2023 Impact Factor: 1.5
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.602
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dc.contributor.authorTseng, CHen_US
dc.contributor.authorSperling, Gen_US
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dc.date.available2012-10-08T03:37:49Z-
dc.date.issued2004en_US
dc.identifier.citationVision Research, 2004, v. 44 n. 12, p. 1273-1296en_US
dc.identifier.issn0042-6989en_US
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dc.description.abstractWe use a novel search task to investigate the spatial distribution of visual attention, developing a general model from the data. Observers distribute attention to locations defined by stripes with a high penalty for attention to intervening areas. Attended areas are defined by a square-wave grating. A target is in one of the even stripes, and ten false targets (identical to the real target) are in the odd stripes; the observer must attend the even stripes and strongly ignore the odd, reporting the location of the target. As the spatial frequency of the grating increases, performance declines. Variations on this task inform a model that incorporates stimulus input, a "low pass" attentional modulation transfer function, and an acuity function to produce a strength map from which the location with the highest strength is selected. A feature-strength map that adds to the attention map enables the model to predict the results of attention-cued conjunction search experiments, and internal noise enables it to predict the outcome of double-pass experiments and of variations in the number of false targets. The model predicted performance on a trial-by-trial basis for three observers, accounting for approximately 70% of the trials. Actual trial-to-trial variation for an observer, using the double-pass method, is about 76%. For any requested distribution of spatial attention, this general model makes a prediction of the actually achieved distribution. © 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.en_US
dc.languageengen_US
dc.publisherPergamon. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/visresen_US
dc.relation.ispartofVision Researchen_US
dc.subjectDistribution of attention-
dc.subjectEndogenous-
dc.subjectSplit attention-
dc.subjectSustained-
dc.subjectVisual search-
dc.subject.meshAttention - Physiologyen_US
dc.subject.meshColor Perception - Physiologyen_US
dc.subject.meshCuesen_US
dc.subject.meshFixation, Ocular - Physiologyen_US
dc.subject.meshHumansen_US
dc.subject.meshMemory, Short-Term - Physiologyen_US
dc.subject.meshModels, Psychologicalen_US
dc.subject.meshPhotic Stimulation - Methodsen_US
dc.subject.meshRetina - Physiologyen_US
dc.subject.meshSpace Perception - Physiologyen_US
dc.subject.meshTime Factorsen_US
dc.subject.meshVisual Cortex - Physiologyen_US
dc.subject.meshVisual Perception - Physiologyen_US
dc.titleThe spatial distribution of visual attentionen_US
dc.typeConference_Paperen_US
dc.identifier.emailTseng, CH:tseng@hku.hken_US
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dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.visres.2004.01.012en_US
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dc.identifier.volume44en_US
dc.identifier.issue12en_US
dc.identifier.spage1273en_US
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