A preliminary investigation of the interaction between expectation and the reflexive allocation of covert spatial attention

Abstract Sudden onsets in the visual periphery elicit reflexive shifts of covert exogenous spatial attention. Here, we asked: are the behavioral effects of such an irrelevant exogenous cue modulated by implicit knowledge about the probability of the cue’s presence? Participants discriminated the ori...

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Main Authors: Nicholas Crotty, Nicole Massa, Dagoberto Tellez, Alex L. White, Michael A. Grubb
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-02-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-89845-w