Visual periodicity reveals distinct attentional signatures for face and non-face categories.

ABSTRACT: Observers can selectively deploy attention to regions of space, moments in time, specific visual features, individual objects, and even specific high-level categories-for example, when keeping an eye out for dogs while jogging. Here, we exploited visual periodicity to examine how category-based attention differentially modulates selective neural processing of face and non-face categories. We combined electroencephalography with a novel frequency-tagging paradigm capable of capturing selective neural responses for multiple visual categories contained within the same rapid image stream (faces/birds in Exp 1; houses/birds in Exp 2). We found that the pattern of attentional enhancement and suppression for face-selective processing is unique compared to other object categories: Where attending

SUBMITTER: Quek GL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11180377 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature