Task-specific engagement of object-based and space-based attention with spatiotemporally defined objects.

ABSTRACT: We used a form of ambiguous apparent motion known as Ternus motion to isolate the effects of object-based and space-based attention, and to explore functional differences between them. Two frames of horizontally aligned disks that were shifted by one position between frames were temporally separated by either a short or a long inter-stimulus interval (ISI). Short ISI displays were perceived as element motion where one disk appeared to jump across the other two. Long ISI displays were perceived as group motion where all three disks appeared to move together. Because element and group motion imply mutually exclusive object structures, adding stimuli (e.g., a small gap) to one disk in each frame created conditions of orthogonal object and location status (same or different), depending on ISI.

SUBMITTER: Zheng Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8087623 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature