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Project 9: Expectation and selective attention

Prof. Dr. Anna Schubö (Cognitive Neuroscience of Perception & Action)

PhD Student: Aylin Hanne

This project examines how humans use selective visual attention to sample visual scenes for information. We assume that humans use prior knowledge acquired in former encounters with similar scenes to predict the most promising parts to attend. This project will examine this assumption by using various visual search tasks. As human observers are usually not aware of the attentional mechanisms they are using, visual attention will be measured by means of behavioral performance, eye tracking and EEG/ERP parameters known to reflect attention deployment.

Publications

Hanne, A.A., Tünnermann, J. & Schubö, A. (2023). Target templates and the time course of distractor location learning. Sci Rep 13, 1672. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-25816-9

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