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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Reinforcement history shapes primary visual cortical responses: an SSVEP study |
Author: | Griffiths, O. Gwinn, O.S. Russo, S. Baetu, I. Nicholls, M.E.R. |
Citation: | Biological Psychology, 2021; 158:108004-1-108004-10 |
Publisher: | Elsevier BV |
Issue Date: | 2021 |
ISSN: | 0301-0511 1873-6246 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Oren Griffiths, O. Scott Gwinn, Salvatore Russo, Irina Baetu, Michael E.R. Nicholls |
Abstract: | Efficient learning requires allocating limited attentional resources to meaningful stimuli and away from irrelevant stimuli. This prioritization may occur via covert attention, evident in the activity of the visual cortex. We used steady-state visual evoked potentials (SSVEPs) to assess whether associability-driven changes in stimulus processing were evident in visuocortical responses. Participants were trained on a learned-predictiveness protocol, whereby one stimulus on each trial accurately predicted the correct response for that trial, and the other was irrelevant. In a second phase the task was arranged so that all cues were objectively predictive. Participants' overt attention (eye gaze) was affected by each cue's reinforcement history, as was their covert attention (SSVEP responses). These biases persisted into Phase 2 when all stimuli were objectively predictive, thereby demonstrating that learned attentional processes are evident in basic sensory processing, and exert an effect on covert attention above and beyond the effects of overt gaze bias. |
Keywords: | Conditioning; electrophysiology; attention; associability; brain oscillatory responses |
Rights: | © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.biopsycho.2020.108004 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP190102708 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biopsycho.2020.108004 |
Appears in Collections: | Psychology publications |
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