Testing the dorsal stream attention hypothesis: Electrophysiological correlates and the effects of ventral stream damage

Marrett, Narisa; de-Wit, Lee; Roser, Matthew E.; Milner, A. David; Lambert, Anthony J.

doi:10.1080/13506285.2011.622729

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“…Although not without critics (Rossetti, Pisella, & McIntosh, 2017), dual stream characterisations of visual functioning have been supported by an impressive array of findings from research with animal (Ungerleider & Mishkin, 1982) as well as human (Ganel & Goodale, 2017;Milner & Goodale, 2006) participants, including neuropsychological, behavioural and neuroimaging (Goodale & Milner, 2018;Milner, 2012) studies. In extending this framework, noted that shifts of attention, both overt and covert can be considered visually guided actions, and presented evidence in support of the proposal that rapid shifts of attention are associated with dorsal stream encoding of visual input (see also (Lambert & Wootton, 2017;Marrett et al, 2011); Viewed from this dual-stream perspective, it seems likely that vision for action (including the ability to shift attention rapidly in response to new visual information), rather than vision for perception, is likely to be the aspect of visual functioning most closely associated with accident vulnerability. Indeed, our central hypothesis is the direct corollary of Milner and Goodale's (2006) contention that 'vision for action' enables rapid and accurate performance of visually guided actions: Accordingly, sub-optimal vision for action should be associated with impaired performance of visually guided actions, and increased susceptibility to accidents caused by failures to link vision with action.…”

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“…The target object is likely to appear at the same location as one of the cues, termed the landmark stimulus. Behavioural , electrophysiological (Lambert & Wootton, 2017;Marrett et al, 2011) and neuropsychological (Marrett et al, 2011) evidence indicates that the dorsal visual stream plays a key role in the featural encoding that drives rapid attention-shifting in response to information provided by landmark cues. In the Vision for Action Test described in detail below, participants were presented with peripheral shapes, comprising a circle and a triangle, and were asked to move their eyes to the location of the landmark shape (circle or triangle, counter-balanced between participants), in order to discriminate a target object (a digit) presented there.…”

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Accident Vulnerability and Vision for Action

Lambert¹,

Sharma²,

Ryckman³

2019

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Many accidents, such as those involving collisions or trips, appear to involve failures of vision; but the association between accident risk and vision as conventionally assessed, is weak or absent. We addressed this conundrum by embracing the distinction inspired by neuroscientific research, between vision for perception and vision for action. A dual-process perspective predicts that accident vulnerability will be associated more strongly with vision for action than vision for perception. Older and younger adults, with relatively high and relatively low self-reported accident vulnerability (Accident Proneness Questionnaire), completed three behavioural assessments targeting: vision for perception (Freiburg Visual Acuity Test); vision for action (Vision for Action Test -VAT); and the ability to perform physical actions involving balance, walking and standing (Short Physical Performance Battery). Accident vulnerability was not associated with visual acuity or with performance of physical actions; but was associated with VAT performance. VAT assesses the ability to link visual input with a specific action -launching a saccadic eye movement as rapidly as possible, in response to shapes presented in peripheral vision. The predictive relationship between VAT performance and accident vulnerability was independent of age, visual acuity and physical performance scores. Applied implications of these findings are considered.

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Accident Vulnerability and Vision for Action

Lambert¹,

Sharma²,

Ryckman³

2019

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“…Likewise, such top-down effects suppose major advantages for motor responses. The information on a nearby potential threat conveyed by an angry or a fearful face is prioritised and rapidly transmitted through the dorsal stream to produce an immediate motor reaction (e.g., to flee) (Lambert and Wootton, 2017;Marrett et al, 2011;Milner and Goodale, 2006).…”

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Cognitive penetration of early vision in face perception

Cecchi

2018

Consciousness and Cognition

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Cognitive and affective penetration of perception refers to the influence that higher mental states such as beliefs and emotions have on perceptual systems. Psychological and neuroscientific studies appear to show that these states modulate the visual system at the visuomotor, attentional, and late levels of processing. However, empirical evidence showing that similar consequences occur in early stages of visual processing seems to be scarce. In this paper, I argue that psychological evidence does not seem to be either sufficient or necessary to argue in favour of or against the cognitive penetration of perception in either late or early vision. In order to do that we need to have recourse to brain imaging techniques. Thus, I introduce a neuroscientific study and argue that it seems to provide well-grounded evidence for the cognitive penetration of early vision in face perception. I also examine and reject alternative explanations to my conclusion.

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“…Although not without critics [9], dual-stream characterisations of visual functioning have been supported by an impressive array of findings from research with animal [10] as well as human [2,11] participants, including neuropsychological, behavioural and neuroimaging [12,13] studies. In extending this framework, Lambert et al [14] noted that shifts of attention, both overt and covert, can be considered visually guided actions, and presented evidence in support of the proposal that rapid shifts of attention are associated with dorsal stream encoding of visual input (see also [15,16]). Viewed from this dual-stream perspective, it seems likely that vision-for-action (including the ability to shift attention rapidly in response to new visual information), rather than vision-for-perception, is likely to be the aspect of visual functioning most closely associated with accident vulnerability.…”

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Accident Vulnerability and Vision for Action: A Pilot Investigation

Lambert

Sharma

Ryckman

2020

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Many accidents, such as those involving collisions or trips, appear to involve failures of vision, but the association between accident risk and vision as conventionally assessed is weak or absent. We addressed this conundrum by embracing the distinction inspired by neuroscientific research, between vision for perception and vision for action. A dual-process perspective predicts that accident vulnerability will be associated more strongly with vision for action than vision for perception. In this preliminary investigation, older and younger adults, with relatively high and relatively low self-reported accident vulnerability (Accident Proneness Questionnaire), completed three behavioural assessments targeting vision for perception (Freiburg Visual Acuity Test); vision for action (Vision for Action Test—VAT); and the ability to perform physical actions involving balance, walking and standing (Short Physical Performance Battery). Accident vulnerability was not associated with visual acuity or with performance of physical actions but was associated with VAT performance. VAT assesses the ability to link visual input with a specific action—launching a saccadic eye movement as rapidly as possible, in response to shapes presented in peripheral vision. The predictive relationship between VAT performance and accident vulnerability was independent of age, visual acuity and physical performance scores. Applied implications of these findings are considered.

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Testing the dorsal stream attention hypothesis: Electrophysiological correlates and the effects of ventral stream damage

Cited by 18 publications

References 59 publications

Accident Vulnerability and Vision for Action

Accident Vulnerability and Vision for Action

Cognitive penetration of early vision in face perception

Accident Vulnerability and Vision for Action: A Pilot Investigation

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