Orienting of attention and spatial cognition.

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  • Author(s): Posner MI;Posner MI
  • Source:
    Cognitive processing [Cogn Process] 2024 Aug; Vol. 25 (Suppl 1), pp. 55-59. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 10.
  • Publication Type:
    Journal Article; Review
  • Language:
    English
  • Additional Information
    • Source:
      Publisher: Springer Verlag Country of Publication: Germany NLM ID: 101177984 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1612-4790 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 16124782 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Cogn Process Subsets: MEDLINE
    • Publication Information:
      Publication: <2004->: Heidelburg : Springer Verlag
      Original Publication: Lengerich : Pabst Science, 2000-
    • Subject Terms:
      Attention*/physiology ; Space Perception*/physiology ; Cognition*/physiology ; Orientation*/physiology; Humans ; Orientation, Spatial/physiology
    • Abstract:
      Humans orient to their sensory world through foveation of target location or through covert shifts of attention. Orienting provides primacy to the selected location and in humans improves the precision of discrimination. Covert orienting appears to arise separately from the mechanisms involved in saccadic eye movements. Covert orienting can serve to prioritize processing the target even increasing its subjective intensity and its acuity. However, this network does not appear to be involved in the operations related to binding and segmentation. Cells exist in the early visual cortex that are activated by both color and form features without attention, however, color and form appear to remain independent even when oriented to the target that is required to be reported. An understanding of the pathways that connect attention networks to memory networks may allow us to understand more complex aspects of spatial cognition and enhance orienting and thus improve spatial cognition.
      (© 2024. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Marta Olivetti Belardinelli.)
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    • Publication Date:
      Date Created: 20240809 Date Completed: 20240830 Latest Revision: 20241109
    • Publication Date:
      20241109
    • Accession Number:
      10.1007/s10339-024-01216-x
    • Accession Number:
      39123061