Pre-Activation Dynamics of Category-Specific Attentional Templates in Visual Search.

ABSTRACT: Visual search can be guided and facilitated by a category-specific attentional template (CAT) when searching for a target embedded into a set of categories. While previous research has proven that CATs can be pre-activated, it has caused confusion due to inconsistent task difficulty and unbalanced target-defined dimensions. To avoid the unbalanced dimensions and investigate the effects of category frameworks on the time course of the pre-activation of CAT, we defined the targets as a color-defined category based on prototype (warm, cool), semantic (garden, ocean), and strategy (red-blue, yellow-green). Moreover, to maintain the consistency of task difficulty, we employed the identification task to all frameworks of CAT within the RSPP paradigm and tracked the time course of CAT pre-activat

SUBMITTER: Su J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12729359 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature