Cross-modal orienting of exogenous attention results in visual-cortical facilitation, not suppression

Abstract Attention may be oriented exogenously (i.e., involuntarily) to the location of salient stimuli, resulting in improved perception. However, it is unknown whether exogenous attention improves perception by facilitating processing of attended information, suppressing processing of unattended i...

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Main Authors: Jonathan M. Keefe, Emilia Pokta, Viola S. Störmer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-89654-x