Are objects the same as groups? ERP correlates of spatial attentional guidance by irrelevant feature similarity.
Brain Res. 2011 May 14;
Authors: Kasai T, Moriya H, Hirano S
It has been proposed that the most fundamental units of attentional selection are "objects" that are grouped according to Gestalt factors such as similarity or connectedness. Previous studies using event-related potentials (ERPs) have shown that object-based attention is associated with modulations of the visual-evoked N1 component, which reflects an early cortical mechanism that is shared with spatial attention. However, these studies only examined the case of perceptually continuous objects. The present study examined the case of separate objects that are grouped according to feature similarity (color, shape) by indexing lateralized potentials at posterior sites in a sustained-attention task that involved bilateral stimulus arrays. A behavioral object effect was found only for task-relevant shape similarity. Electrophysiological results indicated that attention was guided to the task-irrelevant side of the visual field due to achromatic-color similarity in N1 (155-205ms post-stimulus) and early N2 (210-260ms) and due to shape similarity in early N2 and late N2 (280-400ms) latency ranges. These results are discussed in terms of selection mechanisms and object/group representations.
PMID: 21652032 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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