Date: January 1 2021
Summary: Quick review of this paper to understand how covert attention works and how the study was used to assess this
Keywords: ##bibliography #attention #erp #archive
M. S. Worden, J. J. Foxe, N. Wang, and G. V. Simpson, "Anticipatory Biasing of Visuospatial Attention Indexed by Retinotopically Specific α-Bank Electroencephalography Increases over Occipital Cortex," J. Neurosci., vol. 20, no. 6, pp. RC63–RC63, Mar. 2000, doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.20-06-j0002.2000.
Ten right-handed subjects, five male and five female, participated and gave informed consent. Their mean age was 27.1 years with a standard deviation of 6.7 years.
Covert attention: how one can intentionally focus on locations in visual space where stimuli are expected without eye movement.Results in better stimuli processing occurring at the locus of attention while attenuating attention given elsewhere. [1]
Zelko, Jacob. Anticipatory Biasing of Visuospatial Attention Indexed by Retinotopically Specific α-Bank Electroencephalography Increases over Occipital Cortex. https://jacobzelko.com/01022021030923-retinotopically-alpha-band. January 1 2021.
[1] M. I. Posner, C. R. Snyder, and B. J. Davidson, “Attention and the detection of signals.” J. Exp. Psychol. Gen., vol. 109, no. 2, p. 160, 1980.