Statistical learning re-shapes the center-surround inhibition of the visuo-spatial attentional focus.

ABSTRACT: To effectively navigate a crowded and dynamic visual world, our neurocognitive system possesses the remarkable ability to extract and learn its statistical regularities to implicitly guide the allocation of spatial attention resources in the immediate future. The way through which we deploy attention in the visual space has been consistently outlined by a "center-surround inhibition" pattern, wherein a ring of sustained inhibition is projected around the center of the attentional focus to optimize the signal-noise ratio between goal-relevant targets and interfering distractors. While it has been observed that experience-dependent mechanisms could disrupt the inhibitory ring, whether statistical learning of spatial contingencies has an effect on such a surround inhibition and - if any - thr

SUBMITTER: Massironi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11880339 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature