Learned Attention in an Object-Based Frame of Reference

Spatial reference frame of incidentally learned attention.

Visual attention prioritizes information presented at particular spatial locations. These locations can be defined in reference frames centered on the environment or on the viewer. This study investigates whether incidentally learned attention uses a viewer-centered or environment-centered reference frame. Participants conducted visual search on a monitor laid flat on a tabletop. During trainin...

An object-based frame of reference within the human pulvinar.

The pulvinar nucleus of the thalamus is massively interconnected to cortical areas which translate spatial visual information into coordinate systems defined by multiple reference frames [Grieve et al. (The primate pulvinar nuclei: vision and action. Trends in Neurosciences 2000; 23(1): 35-39)]. Here we report the first evidence that spatial coding in the pulvinar is defined by an object-based ...

Spatial reference frame of attention in a large outdoor environment.

A central question about spatial attention is whether it is referenced relative to the external environment or to the viewer. This question has received great interest in recent psychological and neuroscience research, with many but not all, finding evidence for a viewer-centered representation. However, these previous findings were confined to computer-based tasks that involved stationary view...

Spatial reference frame of attention Jiang & Won 1

Visuospatial attention is strongly biased to locations that frequently contained a search target before. However, the function of this bias depends on the reference frame in which attended locations are coded. Previous research has shown a striking difference between tasks administered on a computer monitor and in a large environment, with the former inducing viewer-centered learning and the la...

Attention-based Object Detection