Combining attention: A novel way of examining the links between sensory processing, attention, and behavior

Many everyday tasks, like asking for directions, require our attentional systems to combine the information coming from the senses with our current intentions. This intuitive notion suggests that combining attention might reflect a fundamentally novel way in which attention supports complex behavior...

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Main Author: Landry, Mathieu
Other Authors: Jelena Ristic (Internal/Supervisor)
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Language:en
Published: McGill University 2013
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spelling ndltd-LACETR-oai-collectionscanada.gc.ca-QMM.1197032014-02-13T04:12:31ZCombining attention: A novel way of examining the links between sensory processing, attention, and behaviorLandry, MathieuPsychology - CognitiveMany everyday tasks, like asking for directions, require our attentional systems to combine the information coming from the senses with our current intentions. This intuitive notion suggests that combining attention might reflect a fundamentally novel way in which attention supports complex behavior and in turn affects perceptual processing of attended events. Using established paradigms we demonstrate for the first time that joint recruitment of multiple attentional systems leads to corresponding combined increases in behavior and sensory processing. This result not only provides a new conceptual framework for characterizing the role of attention in behavior but it also suggest an important role of combined attention in maintaining atypical behaviors (e.g., addiction and/or behavioral disorders) which may critically involve combining perceived meaning of the incoming sensory stimuli with individual goals.Certaines tâches de notre quotidien, comme demander à quelqu'un de nous indiquer les directions pour rejoindre un lieu, requièrent que les systèmes attentionnels combinent les informations sensorielle et intentionnelle. Cette façon intuitive de conceptualiser l'attention suggère que la combinaison de systèmes attentionnelles pourrait refléter une nouvelle approche dans notre compréhension sur la façon dont l'attention permet l'émergence de comportements complexes et affecte le traitement de l'information perceptuelle. Utilisant un paradigme de recherche établi, nous démontrons pour la première fois que le recrutement conjoint de multiples systèmes attentionnelles mène à un accroissement équivalent sur le plan des performances comportementales et du traitement de l'information sensorielle. Non seulement ce résultat fournit-il un nouveau cadre conceptuel caractérisant le rôle primordial de l'attention dans l'accomplissement de divers comportements, mais il suggère également que l'attention combinée pourrait représenter un élément important dans le maintient de comportements atypiques (p.ex., dépendances et/ou troubles comportementaux) reflétant la combinaison du traitement de la signification des événements perçus en lien avec les buts individuels.McGill UniversityJelena Ristic (Internal/Supervisor)2013Electronic Thesis or Dissertationapplication/pdfenElectronically-submitted theses.All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated.Master of Science (Department of Psychology) http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=119703
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Landry, Mathieu
Combining attention: A novel way of examining the links between sensory processing, attention, and behavior
description Many everyday tasks, like asking for directions, require our attentional systems to combine the information coming from the senses with our current intentions. This intuitive notion suggests that combining attention might reflect a fundamentally novel way in which attention supports complex behavior and in turn affects perceptual processing of attended events. Using established paradigms we demonstrate for the first time that joint recruitment of multiple attentional systems leads to corresponding combined increases in behavior and sensory processing. This result not only provides a new conceptual framework for characterizing the role of attention in behavior but it also suggest an important role of combined attention in maintaining atypical behaviors (e.g., addiction and/or behavioral disorders) which may critically involve combining perceived meaning of the incoming sensory stimuli with individual goals. === Certaines tâches de notre quotidien, comme demander à quelqu'un de nous indiquer les directions pour rejoindre un lieu, requièrent que les systèmes attentionnels combinent les informations sensorielle et intentionnelle. Cette façon intuitive de conceptualiser l'attention suggère que la combinaison de systèmes attentionnelles pourrait refléter une nouvelle approche dans notre compréhension sur la façon dont l'attention permet l'émergence de comportements complexes et affecte le traitement de l'information perceptuelle. Utilisant un paradigme de recherche établi, nous démontrons pour la première fois que le recrutement conjoint de multiples systèmes attentionnelles mène à un accroissement équivalent sur le plan des performances comportementales et du traitement de l'information sensorielle. Non seulement ce résultat fournit-il un nouveau cadre conceptuel caractérisant le rôle primordial de l'attention dans l'accomplissement de divers comportements, mais il suggère également que l'attention combinée pourrait représenter un élément important dans le maintient de comportements atypiques (p.ex., dépendances et/ou troubles comportementaux) reflétant la combinaison du traitement de la signification des événements perçus en lien avec les buts individuels.
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title Combining attention: A novel way of examining the links between sensory processing, attention, and behavior
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