Pre-saccadic attention relies more on suppression than does covert attention.

ABSTRACT: During covert and pre-saccadic attentional shifts, it is unclear how facilitation and suppression processes interact for target selection. A recent countermanding task pointed to greater suppression at unattended locations during trials with saccades compared to trials without saccades (i.e., fixation and successful stop trials), whereas target facilitation did not differ. It is unknown whether this finding is restricted to countermanding paradigms that involve inhibitory processes. To test this, we adapted Gaspelin and colleagues (2015)'s attention capture task where, within the same block, one location was primed with frequent line discrimination trials, and all locations were occasionally probed using letters report trials. Participants also performed a baseline condition without primin

SUBMITTER: Ouerfelli-Ethier J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9819743 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature