Attention expedites target selection by prioritizing the neural processing of distractor features

In order to investigate underlying mechanisms of color attention, Bartsch et al measured electromagnetic brain responses in participants who were challenged to switch their attention in accordance with unpredicted target colors changes in the absence or presence of ‘distractor colors’. They demonstr...

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Main Authors: Mandy V. Bartsch, Christian Merkel, Mircea A. Schoenfeld, Jens-Max Hopf
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-06-01
Series:Communications Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02305-9