Extended categorization of conjunction object stimuli decreases the latency of attentional feature selection and recruits orthography-linked ERPs

Autor: Jonathan R. Folstein, Shamsi S. Monfared
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Cognitive Neuroscience
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Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Feature selection
Electroencephalography
Stimulus (physiology)
Audiology
050105 experimental psychology
03 medical and health sciences
Young Adult
0302 clinical medicine
Perception
Attentional modulation
medicine
Humans
Learning
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Attention
Evoked Potentials
media_common
Temporal cortex
Brain Mapping
medicine.diagnostic_test
05 social sciences
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Temporal Lobe
Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology
medicine.anatomical_structure
Pattern Recognition
Visual

Categorization
Scalp
Evoked Potentials
Visual

Female
Psychology
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Photic Stimulation
Psychomotor Performance
Orthography
Cognitive psychology
Popis: The role of attention in driving perceptual expertise effects is controversial. The current study addressed the effect of training on ERP components related to and independent of attentional feature selection. Participants learned to categorize cartoon animals over six training sessions (8,800 trials) after which ERPs were recorded during a target detection task performed on trained and untrained stimulus sets. The onset of the selection negativity, an ERP component indexing attentional modulation, was about 60 ms earlier for trained than untrained stimuli. Trained stimuli also elicited centro-parietal N200 and N320 components that were insensitive to attentional feature selection. The scalp distribution and timecourse of these components were better matched by studies of orthography than object expertise. Source localization using eLORETA suggested that the strongest neural sources of the selection negativity were in right ventral temporal cortex whereas the strongest sources of the N200/N320 components were in left ventral temporal cortex, again consistent with the hypothesis that training recruited orthography related areas. Overall, training altered neural processes related to attentional selection, but also affected neural processes that were independent of feature selection.
Databáze: OpenAIRE