Prior cueing affects the saccadic response to targets in the praying mantis Sphodromantis lineola.

ABSTRACT: External cues bias human attention and the perception of subsequent targets. Little is known about how cue properties, such as depth, influence insect attention. One robust cue to depth is stereoscopic disparity, which is the difference in the position of an object in the views of the two eyes. Praying mantises are known to use disparity to judge the distance to prey and are therefore ideal insect models to investigate its role in attention. We investigated how three cue properties - position, duration and stereoscopic disparity - affect mantis selective attention towards subsequent targets. We fitted mantises with 3D glasses and presented them with a cue in 2D or 3D, followed by two 3D stimuli: a high-contrast target and a 'distractor' at different contrasts. Our results show that cue pos

SUBMITTER: Robert T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12188249 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature