Isoluminant stimuli and red background attenuate the effects of transient spatial attention on temporal resolution Export

@article{citeulike:853209, abstract = {The effects of transient spatial attention on temporal resolution were recently studied and compared with attentional effects on spatial resolution. It was found that in contrast to the attentional enhancement of spatial resolution, transient attention impairs temporal resolution. To account for these findings a novel attentional mechanism was suggested. This attentional mechanism facilitates parvocellular neurons at the attended location, which in turn inhibit the activity of magnocellular neurons at the same location [Yeshurun \& Levy, Psychol. Sci. 14 (3) (2003a) 225]. The goal of the present study was to replicate the attentional decrement in temporal resolution (Experiment 1), and perform direct tests of this `parvo facilitation--magno inhibition' hypothesis. The employment of isoluminant stimuli (Experiments 2a and 2b) or a red background (Experiment 3) ensured that the parvo system was the main system mediating performance. Consequently, any parvo-magno inhibitory processes elicited by the attentional mechanism should only have a minor effect on performance. As predicted, these manipulations either significantly attenuated or completely eliminated the attentional decrement in temporal resolution. These findings provide direct support to the hypothesis that attention favors parvocellular over magnocellular neurons.}, author = {Yeshurun, Yaffa}, booktitle = {Visual Attention}, citeulike-article-id = {853209}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2003.12.016}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6T0W-4BN0F1W-5/2/f94f924b50519f6285a80816915a757e}, doi = {10.1016/j.visres.2003.12.016}, journal = {Vision Research}, keywords = {attention, isoluminance, mp, space, time, vision}, month = {June}, number = {12}, pages = {1375--1387}, posted-at = {2006-09-21 16:47:23}, priority = {2}, title = {Isoluminant stimuli and red background attenuate the effects of transient spatial attention on temporal resolution}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2003.12.016}, volume = {44}, year = {2004} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:853209 L3 - citeulike-article-id:853209 N2 - The effects of transient spatial attention on temporal resolution were recently studied and compared with attentional effects on spatial resolution. It was found that in contrast to the attentional enhancement of spatial resolution, transient attention impairs temporal resolution. To account for these findings a novel attentional mechanism was suggested. This attentional mechanism facilitates parvocellular neurons at the attended location, which in turn inhibit the activity of magnocellular neurons at the same location [Yeshurun & Levy, Psychol. Sci. 14 (3) (2003a) 225]. The goal of the present study was to replicate the attentional decrement in temporal resolution (Experiment 1), and perform direct tests of this `parvo facilitation--magno inhibition' hypothesis. The employment of isoluminant stimuli (Experiments 2a and 2b) or a red background (Experiment 3) ensured that the parvo system was the main system mediating performance. Consequently, any parvo-magno inhibitory processes elicited by the attentional mechanism should only have a minor effect on performance. As predicted, these manipulations either significantly attenuated or completely eliminated the attentional decrement in temporal resolution. These findings provide direct support to the hypothesis that attention favors parvocellular over magnocellular neurons. IS - 12 JF - Vision Research EP - 1387 TI - Isoluminant stimuli and red background attenuate the effects of transient spatial attention on temporal resolution VL - 44 T2 - Visual Attention SP - 1375 KW - attention KW - isoluminance KW - mp KW - space KW - time KW - vision AU - Yeshurun, Yaffa PY - 2004/06// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2003.12.016 ER -