Unnoticed regularity violation elicits change-related brain activity

The attentional blink demonstrates automatic deviance processing in vision

“…Importantly, the vMMN elicited by a deviant stimulus 700 ms after T1 (i.e., Lag-7) did not differ compared with the Lag-3 vMMN. This result supports the assumption that vMMN is elicited without attentional allocation [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16]. The finding in the N2 time window is qualified by an earlier, occipital P2 component elicited by deviant stimuli.…”

“…This component, for instance, could be applied for testing impairment in early sensory processing of vision, that is, in people suffering from Alzheimer's disease [11,12]. However, in contrast to the auditory MMN, the demonstration of an attentional independence in the elicitation of the vMMN is still lacking: Usually, it is argued that attention is drawn away from the rare change for the reason that it is presented in the visual periphery (which was irrelevant for the task at hand, see [13,14]) or for the reason that an irrelevant feature of the task relevant visual object is changed while attention is allocated to another, relevant stimulus feature [5,15,16]. Both accounts are limited because the amount of attentional allocation to the rare change cannot be controlled.…”

Visual mismatch negativity and unintentional temporal-context-based prediction in vision

“…The second half of this review discusses the nature of the unintentional temporal-context-based prediction in vision. Here, on the basis of several key findings provided from visual MMN and other prediction-related studies, the nature of the unintentional prediction is discussed in terms of (1) behavioral indicators, (2) cognitive properties, and Schröger, , 2004and Schröger, , 2006Boll and Berti, 2009;Grimm et al, 2009), direction of motion (Amenedo et al, 2007;Hosák et al, 2008;Kremlácek et al, 2006;Lorenzo-Lopéz et al, 2004;PazoAlvarez et al, 2004aPazoAlvarez et al, , 2004bUrban et al, 2008), orientation (Astikainen et al, 2004(Astikainen et al, , 2008Czigler and Pató, 2009;Czigler and Sulykos, 2010;Flynn et al, 2009;Kimura et al, , 2010aKimura et al, , 2010bSulykos and Czigler, 2011), spatial frequency (Heslenfeld, 2003;Kenemans et al, 2003Kenemans et al, , 2008Maekawa et al, 2005Maekawa et al, , 2009Sulykos and Czigler, 2011; for a corresponding magnetoencephalography (MEG) study, see Kogai et al, 2011), contrast/ luminance (Kimura et al, 2008c(Kimura et al, , 2008d(Kimura et al, , 2010c(Kimura et al, , 2010dStagg et al, 2004;Wei et al, 2002), color (Czigler et al, 2002(Czigler et al, , 2004Czigler and Sulykos, 2010;Grimm et al, 2009;…”

Anger superiority effect for change detection and change blindness

“…Because the experimental paradigm involved the presentation of repeated, unchanged visual displays interspersed by changed ones, we also expected to observe a visual mismatch negativity (vMMN) response to the changed stimuli. It has been shown that the vMMN response is elicited by regularity violations, also when participants are unaware of changes in stimuli [46][47][48].…”