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  • Title: Attentional states and the degree of visual adaptation to gratings.
    Author: Festman Y, Ahissar M.
    Journal: Neural Netw; 2004; 17(5-6):849-60. PubMed ID: 15288902.
    Abstract:
    We studied top-down attentional effects on adaptation to two aspects of sinusoidal gratings: contrast (CTE: contrast threshold elevation for detection) and orientation (TAE: tilt aftereffect, bias in perceived orientation). Adaptation was examined under five different behavioral conditions designed to assess the effect of alertness, spatial attention and the dimension attended. Alertness increased CTE, but had no effect on TAE. Spatial attention increased TAE, but had no effect on CTE. TAE (but not CTE) was also sensitive to the attended dimension. It was greater when gratings' contrast rather than orientation was attended. The different patterns of top-down effects on CTE compared with TAE are consistent with these two types of adaptation taking place at different levels along the visual hierarchy: CTE occurs at very low-levels, where activity is affected by alertness but not by spatial attention, whereas TAE occurs at subsequent stages, which are modulated by selective attention.
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