Load-dependent processing of prediction violations in task-irrelevant space.

ABSTRACT: Attentive and predictive mechanisms crucially shape perception, but the interplay between these fundamental processes remains poorly understood. Studies on interactions between attention and prediction have yielded discrepant results, potentially because of differences in task demands. The present study examined whether the perceptual load (i.e., task difficulty) affects predictive processing in task-relevant and task-irrelevant hemifields. To this end, we developed a novel delayed match-to-reference task that orthogonally manipulated task-relevance, prediction, and perceptual load. We hypothesized that a low-load condition should facilitate the processing of prediction violations (oddball effects) in task-irrelevant space because of the availability of spare processing resources. We analy

SUBMITTER: Orbe U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12716448 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature