Editorial: Pre-cueing Effects on Perception and Cognitive Penetrability

Frontiers in Psychology

Athanassios Raftopoulos¹ 

关键词: pre-cueing;    attention;    cognitive penetrability;    mental imagery;    early vision;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00230

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Attention has often been likened to spotlights and filters that illuminate or screen out some inputs in favor of others. This, largely passive, conception of attention has been gradually replaced by a dynamic and far-reaching process. Attention augments neural processing at all levels. Attention contributes to testing hypotheses concerning the distal causes of the sensory data encoded in the lower neuronal assemblies. This testing assumes the form of matching predictions made on the basis of an hypothesis, about the sensory information that the lower levels should encode if the hypothesis is correct, with the actual sensory information encoded at the lower levels. To this aim, attention enhances or sharpens the activity of neurons in the cortical regions that encode the stimuli that most likely contain information relevant to this testing.

【 授权许可】

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