Interactions between spatial attention and global/local feature selection
- 21 August 2000
- journal article
- cognitive neuroscience-and-neuropsychology
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in NeuroReport
- Vol. 11 (12) , 2753-2758
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00001756-200008210-00029
Abstract
The present study examined the interaction between spatial attention and global/local feature processing of visual hierarchical stimuli. Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded from subjects who detected global or local targets at attended locations while ignoring those at unattended locations. Spatial attention produced enhanced occipital P1 and N1 waves in both global and local conditions. Selection of local features enhanced posterior P1, N1 and N2 waves relative to selection of global features. However, the modulations of the P1 and N2 by global/local feature selection were stronger when spatial attention was directed to the left than the right visual fields. The results suggest neurophysiological bases for interactions between spatial attention and hierarchical analysis at multiple stages of visual processing.Keywords
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