Right visual-field advantage in the attentional blink: Asymmetry in attentional gating across time and space

Bergerbest, Dafna; Shilkrot, Orit; Joseph, Michal; Salti, Moti

doi:10.3758/s13414-017-1356-z

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“…Specifically, the participants had a significant advantage of RVF over LVF in terms of response speed. Our findings align with previous studies on attentional bias, which have shown an RVF advantage in the lateralized recognition task (Vergilino Perez et al, 2012;Bergerbest et al, 2017).…”

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Modulation of rhythmic visual stimulation on left–right attentional asymmetry

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et al. 2023

Front. Neurosci.

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The rhythmic visual stimulation (RVS)-induced oscillatory brain responses, namely steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEPs), have been widely used as a biomarker in studies of neural processing based on the assumption that they would not affect cognition. However, recent studies have suggested that the generation of SSVEPs might be attributed to neural entrainment and thus could impact brain functions. But their neural and behavioral effects are yet to be explored. No study has reported the SSVEP influence on functional cerebral asymmetry (FCA). We propose a novel lateralized visual discrimination paradigm to test the SSVEP effects on visuospatial selective attention by FCA analyses. Thirty-eight participants covertly shifted their attention to a target triangle appearing in either the lower-left or -right visual field (LVF or RVF), and judged its orientation. Meanwhile, participants were exposed to a series of task-independent RVSs at different frequencies, including 0 (no RVS), 10, 15, and 40-Hz. As a result, it showed that target discrimination accuracy and reaction time (RT) varied significantly across RVS frequency. Furthermore, attentional asymmetries differed for the 40-Hz condition relative to the 10-Hz condition as indexed by enhanced RT bias to the right visual field, and larger Pd EEG component for attentional suppression. Our results demonstrated that RVSs had frequency-specific effects on left–right attentional asymmetries in both behavior and neural activities. These findings provided new insights into the functional role of SSVEP on FCAs.

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Modulation of rhythmic visual stimulation on left–right attentional asymmetry

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et al. 2023

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“…Most studies were based on left–right visual field asymmetries. These asymmetries were thought to reflect the functional differences between the left and right hemispheres [ 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 ]. Only a few studies were related to the asymmetry of the upper and lower visual fields.…”

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An EEG Study of the Influence of Target Appearing in the Upper and Lower Visual Fields on Brain Attention Resource Allocation

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et al. 2023

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Visuospatial selective attention can focus attention on a certain spatial area and rationally allocate attentional resources during visual target perception. Previous studies investigated the behavioral advantages of subjects when the target appeared in the upper and lower visual fields. However, the neurophysiological characteristics of the brain are not clear, and there is a lack of comprehensive analysis of the external behavior and the internal neurophysiological characteristics. We designed two task paradigms containing a spatial location orientation task and a visual search task. We used event-related potentials (ERP) components (P1 and P2) and electroencephalogram (EEG) rhythms (theta and alpha) to analyze the attention level and allocation of attention resources of the brain. The results showed that when the target appeared in the lower visual field in the spatial location orientation task, subjects consumed fewer attention resources and demonstrated better behavioral performance. In the visual search task, when the target appeared in the upper left visual field, subjects could better mobilize attention resources and behaved more advantageously. The study provides a basis for the design of the target in the upper and lower visual fields in the rehabilitation task, especially for stroke patients with low attention levels due to attention disorders such as spatial attention deficit.

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“…S2), and the decoding accuracy was found to be at chance level, suggesting that no systematic differences in eye movements existed between attend-left and attend-right conditions. Third, experimental design and stimulus types can affect the existence and the magnitude of the LVF bias (Asanowicz et al 2013;Bergerbest et al 2017). For example, as reported in Bergerbest et al (2017), when letters are used as stimuli, one may even observe a right visual field bias, which may ref lect possibly the left hemisphere lateralization for language-related processing.…”

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Top-down control of the left visual field bias in cued visual spatial attention

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A left visual field (LVF) bias in perceptual judgments, response speed, and discrimination accuracy has been reported in humans. Cognitive factors, such as visual spatial attention, are known to modulate or even eliminate this bias. We investigated this problem by recording pupillometry together with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in a cued visual spatial attention task. We observed that (i) the pupil was significantly more dilated following attend-right than attend-left cues, (ii) the task performance (e.g. reaction time [RT]) did not differ between attend-left and attend-right trials, and (iii) the difference in cue-related pupil dilation between attend-left and attend-right trials was inversely related to the corresponding difference in RT. Neuroscientically, correlating the difference in cue-related pupil dilation with the corresponding cue-related fMRI difference yielded activations primarily in the right hemisphere, including the right intraparietal sulcus and the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. These results suggest that (i) there is an asymmetry in visual spatial attention control, with the rightward attention control being more effortful than the leftward attention control, (ii) this asymmetry underlies the reduction or the elimination of the LVF bias, and (iii) the components of the attentional control networks in the right hemisphere are likely part of the neural substrate of the observed asymmetry in attentional control.

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Right visual-field advantage in the attentional blink: Asymmetry in attentional gating across time and space

Cited by 6 publications

References 47 publications

Modulation of rhythmic visual stimulation on left–right attentional asymmetry

Modulation of rhythmic visual stimulation on left–right attentional asymmetry

An EEG Study of the Influence of Target Appearing in the Upper and Lower Visual Fields on Brain Attention Resource Allocation

Top-down control of the left visual field bias in cued visual spatial attention

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