Brain dynamic mechanisms of scale effect in visual spatial attention

Neuroreport. 2006 Oct 23;17(15):1643-7. doi: 10.1097/01.wnr.0000236851.55468.64.

Abstract

The dynamic mechanisms of the early event-related potential scale effect of different attentive regions in the brain was studied. The paradigm of this experiment is the precue-target visual search paradigm by event-related potential technique. The results showed that the reaction time was shortened with the reduction of cue scale, a cue to how big the search area would be, and fixed target stimulus, while the amplitudes of P1 and N1 components of event-related potentials increased. These results not only provided the electrophysiological evidences that supported the zoom-lens theory, but also indicated that the zoom-lens effect happened at the early selected attention period. The results also showed that there existed two kinds of separation in the P2 effect.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Analysis of Variance
  • Attention / physiology*
  • Brain / physiology*
  • Brain Mapping
  • Cues
  • Electroencephalography / methods
  • Evoked Potentials / physiology*
  • Female
  • Functional Laterality
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Pattern Recognition, Visual / physiology*
  • Photic Stimulation / methods