Spatial interactions determine temporal feature integration as revealed by unmasking

Spatial and temporal attention revealed by microsaccades

We compared the spatial and temporal allocation of attention as revealed by microsaccades. Observers viewed several concurrent "rapid serial visual presentation" (RSVP) streams in the periphery while maintaining fixation. They continually attended to, and discriminated targets in one particular, cued stream. Over and above this continuous allocation, spatial attention transients ("attention shi...

Non-retinotopic feature integration decreases response-locked brain activity as revealed by electrical neuroimaging

When presented with dynamic scenes, the brain integrates visual elements across space and time. Such non-retinotopic processing has been intensively studied from a psychophysical point of view, but little is known about the underlying neural processes. Here we used high-density EEG to reveal neural correlates of non-retinotopic feature integration. In an offset-discrimination task we presented ...

Properties of Auditory Temporal Integration Revealed by Mismatch Negativity

The mismatch negativity (MMN), a component of event–related potentials (ERP), was recorded to investigate the properties of the storage of auditory temporal sequences in the sensory memory. First, the MMN elicited by the infrequent change in a pair of closely spaced tones was evaluated. In ignored condition, it was shown that the MMN was elicited only when the total duration of the tone pair wa...

Spatial and Temporal Aspects of Populations Revealed by Mitochondrial DNA

Spatial grouping determines temporal integration.

To make sense out of a continuously changing visual world, people need to integrate features across space and time. Despite more than a century of research, the mechanisms of features integration are still a matter of debate. To examine how temporal and spatial integration interact, the authors measured the amount of temporal fusion (a measure of temporal integration) for different spatial layo...