Crowding alters the spatial distribution of attention modulation in   human primary visual cortex

doi:10.1167/8.9.6

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	Crowding alters the spatial distribution of attention modulation in human primary visual cortex
	Fang, Fang ; He, Sheng
刊名	journal of vision
	2008
关键词	attention contrast crowding fMRI vision V1 CORTICAL MAGNIFICATION MASKING ACUITY IDENTIFICATION INTERFERENCE THRESHOLDS RESOLUTION STIMULUS VISION AREAS
DOI	10.1167/8.9.6
英文摘要	Crowding effect is the visibility reduction of a target when presented with neighboring distractors. It has been explained by either lateral inhibition at a pre-attentive level or coarse spatial resolution of attention. To test these theories, high-resolution fMRI was used to measure V1 response to the target in the presence or the absence of the distractors in both attended and unattended conditions. We found the cortical response to the target was not affected by the presence of distractors in the unattended condition. However, the spatial distribution of attention modulation in the target and its surrounding area depended on the crowding configuration. When distractors were placed in the same radial axis as the target, a configuration with a severe crowding effect, significant attention enhancements were observed not only in the target's and the distractors' locations, but also in regions next to the target where even no stimulus was presented. But this spread of attention enhancement did not occur when distractors were placed in the same circumference as the target, a configuration with a weak crowding effect. The pattern of interaction between attention and target-distractor configuration supports that crowding results from coarse spatial resolution of attention.; http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000258709300006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=8e1609b174ce4e31116a60747a720701 ; Ophthalmology; SCI(E); PubMed; 12; ARTICLE; 9; 6.1-9; 8
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/323441]
专题	心理与认知科学学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Fang, Fang,He, Sheng. Crowding alters the spatial distribution of attention modulation in human primary visual cortex[J]. journal of vision,2008.
APA	Fang, Fang,&He, Sheng.(2008).Crowding alters the spatial distribution of attention modulation in human primary visual cortex.journal of vision.
MLA	Fang, Fang,et al."Crowding alters the spatial distribution of attention modulation in human primary visual cortex".journal of vision (2008).