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Publication Date: 2011-Feb
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Mechanisms of Percept-Percept and Image-Percept Integration in Vision: Behavioral and Electrophysiological Evidence
Dalvit, Silvia; Eimer, Martin
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, v37 n1 p1-11 Feb 2011
Previous research has shown that the detection of a visual target can be guided not only by the temporal integration of two percepts, but also by integrating a percept and an image held in working memory. Behavioral and event-related brain potential (ERP) measures were obtained in a target detection task that required temporal integration of 2 successively presented stimuli in the left or right hemifield. Task performance was good when both displays followed each other immediately (percept-percept integration) and when displays were separated by a 300- or 900-ms interval (image-percept integration), but was poor with intermediate interstimulus intervals. An enhanced posterior negativity at electrodes contralateral to the side of the target was observed for percept-percept and for image&-percept integration, demonstrating that both are based on spatiotopic representations. However, this contralateral negativity emerged later and was more sustained on trials with long interstimulus intervals, indicating that image-percept integration is slower and involves a sustained activation of working memory. (Contains 1 table and 5 figures.)
Descriptors: Intervals, Short Term Memory, Eye Movements, Stimuli, Vision, Brain, Experiments, Visualization, Human Body, Visual Perception, Spatial Ability
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