Unconscious pop-out: Attentional capture by unseen feature singletons only when top-down attention is available

Hsieh, Po‐Jang; Colas, Jaron T.; Kanwisher, Nancy

doi:10.1167/11.11.157

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“…In line with this possibility, recent studies have shown that exogenous attention can be summoned by monocular supraliminal onsets in a spatialcueing paradigm (Self & Roelfsema, 2010). In addition, and even more relevant to the present hypothesis, it has been found that attention (and eye movements) can also be unconsciously shifted toward a suppressed target singleton during CFS (Hsieh, Colas, & Kanwisher, 2011;Rothkirch, Stein, Sekutowicz, & Sterzer, 2012;Zhaoping, 2008).…”

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Learning of monocular information facilitates breakthrough to awareness during interocular suppression

Mastropasqua

Tse

Turatto

2015

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Continuous flash suppression (CFS) is a potent method of inducing binocular rivalry, wherein a rapid succession of high-contrast images presented to one eye effectively blocks from awareness a low-contrast image presented to the other eye. Here we addressed whether the contents of the suppressed image can break through to awareness with extended CFS exposure. On 2/3 of the trials, we presented a faint bar (the target) to the nondominant eye while a high-contrast flickering Mondrian (the mask) was displayed to the dominant eye. Participants were first asked to report whether the target had broken through the CFS mask. Furthermore, on targetpresent trials, the participants were then asked to guess whether the target had appeared above or below the fixation point. In Experiment 1, the target was presented with a fixed orientation for four blocks of trials, whereas in the fifth block, the target could also have the orthogonal orientation. In Experiment 2, the target was always presented with a fixed orientation, but in the fifth block, unbeknownst to participants, the target and the mask were swapped across the eyes. We found that awareness of the target rapidly improved with training in both experiments. However, whereas Experiment 1 revealed that the improvement largely generalized across stimulus orientations, Experiment 2 showed that the effect of practice was eye-specific. The results suggest that increased breakthrough with training was due to a monocular form of learning. Finally, a control experiment was conducted to exclude the possibility that the monocular learning we reported could have been due to sensory adaptation caused by the masks.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 77%

Learning of monocular information facilitates breakthrough to awareness during interocular suppression

Mastropasqua

Tse

Turatto

2015

Atten Percept Psychophys

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“…Although several findings indicate that certain visual properties of stimuli suppressed from awareness can nevertheless guide spatial attention (58,59), there is no clear evidence that stimuli suppressed through CFS are processed semantically. We discuss some caveats to this conclusion in the SI Results and Discussion, Semantic Processing of Images Made Invisible by Continuous Flash Suppression.…”

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Language can boost otherwise unseen objects into visual awareness

Lupyan

Ward

2013

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Linguistic labels (e.g., "chair") seem to activate visual properties of the objects to which they refer. Here we investigated whether language-based activation of visual representations can affect the ability to simply detect the presence of an object. We used continuous flash suppression to suppress visual awareness of familiar objects while they were continuously presented to one eye. Participants made simple detection decisions, indicating whether they saw any image. Hearing a verbal label before the simple detection task changed performance relative to an uninformative cue baseline. Valid labels improved performance relative to no-label baseline trials. Invalid labels decreased performance. Labels affected both sensitivity (d′) and response times. In addition, we found that the effectiveness of labels varied predictably as a function of the match between the shape of the stimulus and the shape denoted by the label. Together, the findings suggest that facilitated detection of invisible objects due to language occurs at a perceptual rather than semantic locus. We hypothesize that when information associated with verbal labels matches stimulus-driven activity, language can provide a boost to perception, propelling an otherwise invisible image into awareness.vision | top-down effects | CFS | penetrability of perception

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“…Visual attention based algorithm reveals the mechanisms of biological visual intelligence [15][16][17][18][19]. It has wide applications in various locations as reported by some computer vision researchers [20][21][22][23][24][25][26].…”

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A Multitarget Visual Attention Based Algorithm on Crack Detection of Industrial Explosives

Shi

Zhang

2018

Mathematical Problems in Engineering

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This paper is a novel study on crack detection of industrial explosives. The proposed algorithm consists of the following steps:(1) image preprocessing was performed according to the defect features of industrial explosives cartridge, and we developed an improved visual attention based algorithm. This proposed algorithm features a parametric analysis that can be implemented on the image according to the conspicuous maps with the introduction of the concept of defect discrimination ; (2) as compared with other algorithms, our method can realize real-time multitarget detection function; (3) a new analysis method, the IPV-WEN algorithm, was proposed to analyze the cartridge defects based on performance indices. Through comparison and experimentation, it was revealed that this method can achieve a detection accuracy of 97.9%, with detection time of 34.51 ms, which satisfied the requirement in the industrial explosives production.

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Unconscious pop-out: Attentional capture by unseen feature singletons only when top-down attention is available

Cited by 40 publications

References 31 publications

Learning of monocular information facilitates breakthrough to awareness during interocular suppression

Learning of monocular information facilitates breakthrough to awareness during interocular suppression

Language can boost otherwise unseen objects into visual awareness

A Multitarget Visual Attention Based Algorithm on Crack Detection of Industrial Explosives

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