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Journal articles on the topic "Distracter suppression"
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Fishman, Yonatan I., Christophe Micheyl, and Mitchell Steinschneider. "Neural mechanisms of rhythmic masking release in monkey primary auditory cortex: implications for models of auditory scene analysis." Journal of Neurophysiology 107, no. 9 (May 1, 2012): 2366–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.01010.2011.
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The ability to detect and track relevant acoustic signals embedded in a background of other sounds is crucial for hearing in complex acoustic environments. This ability is exemplified by a perceptual phenomenon known as “rhythmic masking release” (RMR). To demonstrate RMR, a sequence of tones forming a target rhythm is intermingled with physically identical “Distracter” sounds that perceptually mask the rhythm. The rhythm can be “released from masking” by adding “Flanker” tones in adjacent frequency channels that are synchronous with the Distracters. RMR represents a special case of auditory stream segregation, whereby the target rhythm is perceptually segregated from the background of Distracters when they are accompanied by the synchronous Flankers. The neural basis of RMR is unknown. Previous studies suggest the involvement of primary auditory cortex (A1) in the perceptual organization of sound patterns. Here, we recorded neural responses to RMR sequences in A1 of awake monkeys in order to identify neural correlates and potential mechanisms of RMR. We also tested whether two current models of stream segregation, when applied to these responses, could account for the perceptual organization of RMR sequences. Results suggest a key role for suppression of Distracter-evoked responses by the simultaneous Flankers in the perceptual restoration of the target rhythm in RMR. Furthermore, predictions of stream segregation models paralleled the psychoacoustics of RMR in humans. These findings reinforce the view that preattentive or “primitive” aspects of auditory scene analysis may be explained by relatively basic neural mechanisms at the cortical level.
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Lanssens, Armien, Gloria Pizzamiglio, Dante Mantini, and Celine R. Gillebert. "Role of the dorsal attention network in distracter suppression based on features." Cognitive Neuroscience 11, no. 1-2 (November 1, 2019): 37–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2019.1683525.
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Reich, Darcy A., and Robert D. Mather. "Busy Perceivers and Ineffective Suppression Goals: A Critical Role for Distracter Thoughts." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 34, no. 5 (March 5, 2008): 706–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0146167207313732.
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Seidl, K. N., M. V. Peelen, and S. Kastner. "Neural Evidence for Distracter Suppression during Visual Search in Real-World Scenes." Journal of Neuroscience 32, no. 34 (August 22, 2012): 11812–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1523/jneurosci.1693-12.2012.
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Tays, William J., Jane Dywan, Karen J. Mathewson, and Sidney J. Segalowitz. "Age Differences in Target Detection and Interference Resolution in Working Memory: An Event-related Potential Study." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 20, no. 12 (December 2008): 2250–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2008.20158.
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There is growing consensus that a decline in attentional control is a core aspect of cognitive aging. We used event-related potentials to examine the time course of attentional control in older and younger adults as they attempted to resolve familiarity-based and response-based interference during a working memory task. Accuracy was high for both groups but their neural response to targets and to distracters was markedly different. Young adults' early target selection was evident by 300 msec in a differentiated P3a and they responded to interference by generating a medial frontal negativity (MFN) to distracters by 450 msec that was largest when the need for interference resolution was greatest. Dipole source analyses revealed a temporal coactivation of the inferior frontal and anterior cingulate cortex in younger adults, suggesting that these regions may interact during interference resolution. Older adults did not show the early target-selective P3a effect and failed to subsequently produce the MFN in response to distracting stimuli. In fact, older adults showed a large frontal positivity in place of the MFN but, rather than serve a compensatory role, this frontal activation was associated with poorer behavioral performance. These data suggest that aging interferes with a dynamic interplay of early target selection followed by later suppression of distracter-related neural activity—a process central to the efficient control of attention.
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Conci, Markus, Klaus Gramann, Hermann J. Müller, and Mark A. Elliott. "Electrophysiological Correlates of Similarity-based Interference during Detection of Visual Forms." Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 18, no. 6 (June 2006): 880–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2006.18.6.880.
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Illusory figure completion demonstrates the ability of the visual system to integrate information across gaps. Mechanisms that underlie figural emergence support the interpolation of contours and the filling-in of form information [Grossberg, S., & Mingolla, E. Neural dynamics of form perception: Boundary completion, illusory figures and neon colour spreading. Psychological Review, 92, 173–211, 1985]. Although both processes contribute to figure formation, visual search for an illusory target configuration has been shown to be susceptible to interfering form, but not contour, information [Conci, M., Müller, H. J., & Elliott, M. A. The contrasting impact of global and local object attributes on Kanizsa figure detection. Submitted]. Here, the physiological basis of form interference was investigated by recording event-related potentials elicited from contour- and surface-based distracter interactions with detection of a target Kanizsa figure. The results replicated the finding of form interference and revealed selection of the target and successful suppression of the irrelevant distracter to be reflected by amplitude differences in the N2pc component (240–340 msec). In conclusion, the observed component variations reflect processes of target selection on the basis of integrated form information resulting from figural completion processes.
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Lennert, Therese, and Julio Martinez-Trujillo. "Strength of Response Suppression to Distracter Stimuli Determines Attentional-Filtering Performance in Primate Prefrontal Neurons." Neuron 70, no. 1 (April 2011): 141–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2011.02.041.
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Lennert, Therese, and Julio Martinez-Trujillo. "Strength of Response Suppression to Distracter Stimuli Determines Attentional-Filtering Performance in Primate Prefrontal Neurons." Neuron 70, no. 2 (April 2011): 375. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2011.04.011.
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McSorley, Eugene, Patrick Haggard, and Robin Walker. "Time Course of Oculomotor Inhibition Revealed by Saccade Trajectory Modulation." Journal of Neurophysiology 96, no. 3 (September 2006): 1420–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/jn.00315.2006.
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Selecting a stimulus as the target for a goal-directed movement involves inhibiting other competing possible responses. Both target and distractor stimuli activate populations of neurons in topographic oculomotor maps such as the superior colliculus. Local inhibitory interconnections between these populations ensure only one saccade target is selected. Suppressing saccades to distractors may additionally involve inhibiting corresponding map regions to bias the local competition. Behavioral evidence of these inhibitory processes comes from the effects of distractors on oculomotor and manual trajectories. Individual saccades may initially deviate either toward or away from a distractor, but the source of this variability has not been investigated. Here we investigate the relation between distractor-related deviation of trajectory and saccade latency. Targets were presented with, or without, distractors, and the deviation of saccade trajectories arising from the presence of distractors was measured. A fixation gap paradigm was used to manipulate latency independently of the influence of competing distractors. Shorter-latency saccades deviated toward distractors and longer-latency saccades deviated away from distractors. The transition between deviation toward or away from distractors occurred at a saccade latency of around 200 ms. This shows that the time course of the inhibitory process involved in distractor related suppression is relatively slow.
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Failing, Michel, and Jan Theeuwes. "More capture, more suppression: Distractor suppression due to statistical regularities is determined by the magnitude of attentional capture." Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 27, no. 1 (December 17, 2019): 86–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-019-01672-z.
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AbstractSalient yet irrelevant objects often interfere with daily tasks by capturing attention against our best interests and intentions. Recent research has shown that through implicit learning, distraction by a salient object can be reduced by suppressing the location where this distractor is likely to appear. Here, we investigated whether suppression of such high-probability distractor locations is an all-or-none phenomenon or specifically tuned to the degree of interference caused by the distractor. In two experiments, we varied the salience of two task-irrelevant singleton distractors each of which was more likely to appear in one specific location in the visual field. We show that the magnitude of interference by a distractor determines the magnitude of suppression for its high-probability location: The more salient a distractor, the more it becomes suppressed when appearing in its high-probability location. We conclude that distractor suppression emerges as a consequence of the spatial regularities regarding the location of a distractor as well as its potency to interfere with attentional selection.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Distracter suppression"
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MARINI, FRANCESCO. "Attentional control guides the strategic filtering of potential distraction as revealed by behavior and Fmri." Doctoral thesis, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10281/50236.
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When dealing with significant sensory stimuli, performance can be hampered by distracting events. Attention mechanisms lessen such negative effects, enabling selection of relevant information while blocking potential distraction. Recent work shows that preventing the negative impact of forthcoming distraction is actively achieved by attentional selection processes. Thus, I hypothesize that the engagement of a distraction-filtering mechanism to counteract distraction, although indisputably beneficial when distraction occurs, also taxes cognitive-brain systems when distraction is expected but does not occur, leading to performance costs.
In my thesis, I seek the behavioral and brain signature of a mechanism for the filtering of potential distraction within and between sensory modalities. I show that, when potential distraction is foreseen in a stimulus-processing context, a cognitive mechanism is engaged for limiting negative impact of irrelevant stimuli on behavioral performance, yet its engagement is resource-demanding and thus incurs a performance cost when distraction does not occur. This cost consists of slower response times to a simple sensory stimulus when presented alone but in a potentially-distracting context, as compared to the same stimulus presented in a completely distraction-free context.
This cost generalizes across different target and distracters sensory modalities, such as touch, vision and audition, and to both space-based and feature-based attention tasks. The activation of the filtering mechanism relies on both strategic and reactive processes, as shown by its dynamic dependence on probabilistic and cross-trial contingencies. Probability of conflict substantially modulates the magnitude of the filtering cost, which results larger in contexts where the probability of experiencing conflict is high. Crucially, across participants, the observed strategic cost is inversely related to the interference exerted by a distracter on distracter-present trials.
The strategic filtering mechanism is predominantly adopted as a longer-term, sustained, cognitive set throughout an extended time period. Its activation is associated with sustained brain activity in prefrontal areas and in the frontoparietal attentional network. Sustained brain activity in prefrontal areas correlates across participants with the filtering cost, thus confirming a close relationship between this sustained activation and the observed behavioral cost. I also show that the recruitment of the distraction filtering mechanism in a potentially distracting context guides attention and behavior through different top-down modulations. In fact, when potential distraction is foreseen, the activation of a filtering mechanism promotes both the attenuation of sensory representation of distracting stimuli in extrastriate visual cortex and the prevention of involuntary activations of conflict-driven motor responses in the premotor cortex.
These results attest to the existence of a system for the monitoring and filtering of potential distraction in the human brain that likely reflects a general mechanism of cognitive-attentional control.
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Wang, Deming. "The Search for a More Effective Distractor in Thought Suppression under Cognitive Load." Thesis, Curtin University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/66027.
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The present thesis investigated the role of distractor related variables in thought suppression, including content, perceived satisfaction and immersion. Results suggest that distractors were effective in reducing intrusions and accessibility of the unwanted thought when they were satisfying and immersive, such as when they reflect psychological need satisfaction. A meta-analysis was also conducted to explain heterogeneity in previous thought suppression studies. Findings of the present thesis shed light on thought suppression theories and self-determination theory.
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Bretherton, Paul. "The neural mechanisms of attention : exploring threat-related suppression and enhancement using ERPs." Thesis, University of Roehampton, 2016. https://pure.roehampton.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/the-neural-mechanisms-of-attention(87e183ac-3a36-40e6-9c69-91f7c1209e87).html.
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The capacity of the visual system to process information about multiple objects at any given moment in time is limited. This is because not all information can be processed equally or in parallel and subsequently reach consciousness. Previous research has utilized behavioural experiments to explore visual attention. More recently research, however, has used electroencephalography (EEG) to measuring the electrical brain activity in the posterior scalp. By time locking visual stimulus events to fluctuations in scalp activity researchers have been able to estimate the time course of attentional changes by measuring changes in these event-related potentials (ERP). One component in particular (N2pc) has been a reliable tool in measuring either the suppression of, or the shift of attentional to, both ignored and attended items in the visual scene. The N2pc is measured by comparing the ERP activity contralateral and ipsilateral to the visual field of interest. More recently, evidence has been presented that the mechanisms of attention thought to be represented by the N2pc (suppression and attentional selection) could be separated into different ERP components (Pd: indexing attentional suppression of an ignored item; and Nt: indexing attentional selection of the target) and measured independently. In six experiments, using ERPs, this thesis employs these components to explore the mechanisms and strategies of the human attentional system. Additionally, this thesis focuses on the impact of different types of simultaneous processing load on the attentional system and how the mechanisms of this system are influenced. Experiment 1 explores the idea that the type or valence of information to be ignored may influence the ability to suppress it. Results of this experiment 4 show that neither the type nor valence of the irrelevant information modulated the amplitude of the distractor positivity (Pd), indicating suppression of the irrelevant distractor was not altered. Noted in experiment 1 was also the presence of an early negativity (Ne) that appeared to represent attentional capture of the ignored lateral stimulus. Experiment 2 demonstrated that the valence of the lateral target did not alter the target negativity (Nt), indicating a different pattern of results between the Nt and the N2pc reported in previous studies (e.g. Eimer & Kiss, 2007; Feldmann-Wüstefeld et al., 2010). Experiment 2 also showed a similarity of the target negativity (Nt) to the early negativity (Ne; the N2pc like component observed in exp 1) toward face and non-face stimuli. This comparison supported the idea that the early negativity (Ne) reflected attentional capture of the ignored lateral distractor and as a result was relabelled the distractor negativity (Nd) in subsequent experiments. Experiment 3 showed that the salience of the lateral image did not modulate the Pd as should be the case if the Pd reflected sensory-level processing. An early contralateral negativity (similar to the Nd observed in exp 1) was altered by the salience of the distractor which added support to the hypothesis that this reflects attentional capture of the lateral ignored image. Experiment 4 attempted to manipulate working memory (WM) to assess the effect of WM load on attentional capture and suppression. While the results did indicate modulation of suppression under WM load, the limitations of the design of experiment 4 made any definitive interpretation of the results unreliable. The results of experiment 5 showed that suppression, as indexed by the Pd, was not altered by cognitive load. However, reductions in attentional capture under high cognitive load, as indexed by the distractor negativity (Nd), were observed and contradict the results of previous experiments (c.f. Lavie & De Fockert, 2005) 5 where cognitive load resulted in an increase in attentional capture. Although, there appears to be some issue in the authors interpretation of the results of these experiments (see chapter 6 for discussion). The results of Experiment 6 show the opposite effect with a significant increase in the laterality of the Pd under high perceptual load. A similar increase in the laterality of the Pd was not reflected in terms of valence though, where suppression of threat related distractors was not altered under high perceptual load. The hypothesis that an increase in perceptual load will result in a decrease in attentional capture was generally supported by the results of experiment 6. Under high perceptual load angry face distractors captured attention, as indexed by the laterality of the Nd, with neutral face distractors showing a reduction in attentional capture. While under low perceptual load, both angry and neutral face distractors resulted in a significant (and similar) laterality of the Nd. The thesis concludes by discussing issues concerning Lavie’s Load Theory of attention and outlines some potential misinterpretations of previous data that have led to the proposal that cognitive load results in a decrease in attentional resources and therefore a decrease in attentional capture of ignored stimuli. It is argued in this thesis that the results of Lavie and de Fockert (2005), which concluded that the increase in cognitive load resulted in a decrease in attentional capture, are more likely to be due to changes in attentional capture (i.e. a reduction) and changes in RT (i.e. an increase), under cognitive load being separate responses to the availability of resources, one that focusses attention on the goal directed task and the other that results in extended processing time to carry out the more difficult task. In this case both ‘changes’ appear to work to prioritise resources in favour of the goal directed task.
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Kiss, Monika. "Searching for a color singleton among new items no preliminary suppression of old distractor locations." Berlin Logos-Verl, 2004. http://deposit.d-nb.de/cgi-bin/dokserv?id=2865585&prov=M&dok_var=1&dok_ext=htm.
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Magnusson, Oscar. "Attentional selection and suppression in non-clinical adults : An event-related potential study." Thesis, Högskolan i Skövde, Institutionen för biovetenskap, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:his:diva-18727.
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Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that manifests as a developmentally inappropriate pattern of inattention, and hyperactivity or impulsivity. ADHD is a multifactorial disorder with inter alia deficits in selective attention processing. The current diagnosis of ADHD is error-prone as it relies on subjective descriptions and external observations of behavior. Measures that are less reliant on subjective descriptions can enable more accurate and informative diagnoses of ADHD. Wang et al. (2016) have identified two event-related potential (ERP) components, posterior contralateral N2 (N2pc) and distractor positivity (PD) as predictors of ADHD symptom severity in children. N2pc reflects target selection and PD reflects distractor suppression during visual selective attention. The present study aimed to examine how target-evoked N2pc and distractor-evoked PD related to attentional capacity in non-clinical adults. Participants were presented with a visual search paradigm and a self-report scale, the Everyday Life Attention Scale (ELAS). The amplitude of target-evoked N2pc and distractor-evoked PD amplitude was compared to ELAS score in multiple linear regression models. Results displayed that the peak amplitude of target-evoked N2pc was a significant predictor of attentional capacity (as measured with ELAS), while the peak amplitude of distractor-evoked PD was not associated with attentional capacity. Participants with higher attentional capacity (ELAS score) displayed less negative peak amplitudes of target-evoked N2pc. This seems to suggest that target selection, but not distractor suppression in nonclinical adults can predict attentional capacity. However, due to a limited sample size, further research is needed before drawing any major conclusions.
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Chih-HaoLien and 連志浩. "fMRI Repetition Suppression for Targets and Distractors." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/09432371591400080666.
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碩士國立成功大學
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Repetition Suppression (RS) refers to the phenomenon that when the same stimulus is repeated, the BOLD responses to it decrease in certain brain areas. It reminas unclear what exactly its underlying neural mechanism is. One theory suggests that RS is a perceptual-level automatic process; therefore it should remain the same regardless of attentional or task demand manipulations (e.g., Jiang et al., 2000). However, there are also several studies reported a different pattern suggesting that RS is not an automatic process and can be modulated by attention (Yi ＆ Chun, 2005). One reason that why previous studies have yield different results might be the differences in the level of attention to the stimuli manipulated in those studies. We reckon that when targets and distractors belong to very different categories, the distractors can be ignored immediately after the stimulus category is identified, thus receives minimum attention. And this may not be enough to produce RS (e.g., Yi ＆ Chun, 2005). We modified the paradigm Jiang et al. (2000) used, adding a manipulation of using two categories of stimuli (face and scene), to investigation our hypothesis. The results indicate that RS can be found in stimulus-category related areas (ie. parahippocampal place area and fusiform face area) in all four conditions regardless of whether targets and distractors were from same category or not. In sum, our results support better the view that RS is an automatic process, at least in the paradigm we used.
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趙化如. "Thought Suppression: The Roles of Distractor Type and Cognitive Load." Thesis, 1999. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/21871173403742133635.
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Thought suppression refers to "an attempt to keep an wanted thought or concept out of one''s consciousness". Most of people find suppression so difficulty that they need to try very hard to think something else again and again. Wegner (1992) proposed that there are two processes underlying this mental control: the operating process and the monitoring process. The former requires cognitive capacity, and the latter is an automatic process. Wegner suggested that when the individual only has very limited cognitive capacity, the monitoring process may supersede the operating process and as a result, induces the ironic effect. In the present study, we hypothesized that, by giving a focused distractor, subjects would be able to perform the operating process more efficiently even in the condition with limited cognitive capacity, and thus thought suppression could be achieved. We randomly assigned one hundred and twenty five subjects to a 3 (task: suppression-focused distractor vs. suppression-unfocused distractor vs. concentration) × 2 (cognitive load: high/low) × 3 (word type: target word vs. target-related word vs. target-unrelated word) design, with the last factor as a within variable. Subject were first asked to make an oral report about what come to their mind during the suppression/concentration processes and then do the Stroop test. The dependent measures were the frequency of target word reported and the reaction time during the Stroop test. The results indicated a main effect of cognitive load. Subjects in the high load condition generally had longer reaction time. We did not, however, found any other main effect or interaction. After comparing the frequency of target word reported by our subjects and by Wegner''s (1987) subjects, we found that the reported frequencies of our subjects were much less. Therefore, we conducted one complimentary experiment to collect more information. The result indicated that our subjects performed "thought suppression" easily. In other words, subjects could stop whatever they were thinking almost right away. We speculate that the result might be due to the culture differences and the education system employed. Further implications were also discussed.
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Berteau, Stefan André. "Modeling biophysical and neural circuit bases for core cognitive abilities evident in neuroimaging patterns: hippocampal mismatch, mismatch negativity, repetition positivity, and alpha suppression of distractors." Thesis, 2018. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/27671.
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This dissertation develops computational models to address outstanding problems in the domain of expectation-related cognitive processes and their neuroimaging markers in functional MRI or EEG. The new models reveal a way to unite diverse phenomena within a common framework focused on dynamic neural encoding shifts, which can arise from robust interactive effects of M-currents and chloride currents in pyramidal neurons. By specifying efficient, biologically realistic circuits that achieve predictive coding (e.g., Friston, 2005), these models bridge among neuronal biophysics, systems neuroscience, and theories of cognition.
Chapter one surveys data types and neural processes to be examined, and outlines the Dynamically Labeled Predictive Coding (DLPC) framework developed during the research. Chapter two models hippocampal prediction and mismatch, using the DLPC framework. Chapter three presents extensions to the model that allow its application for modeling neocortical EEG genesis. Simulations of this extended model illustrate how dynamic encoding shifts can produce Mismatch Negativity (MMN) phenomena, including pharmacological effects on MMN reported for humans or animals.
Chapters four and five describe new modeling studies of possible neural bases for alpha-induced information suppression, a phenomenon associated with active ignoring of stimuli. Two models explore the hypothesis that in simple rate-based circuits, information suppression might be a robust effect of neural saturation states arising near peaks of resonant alpha oscillations. A new proposal is also introduced for how the basal ganglia may control onset and offset of alpha-induced information suppression. Although these rate models could reproduce many experimental findings, they fell short of reproducing a key electrophysiological finding: phase-dependent reduction in spiking activity correlated with power in the alpha frequency band.
Therefore, chapter five also specifies how a DLPC model, adapted from the neocortical model developed in chapter three, can provide an expectation-based model of alpha-induced information suppression that exhibits phase-dependent spike reduction during alpha-band oscillations. The model thus can explain experimental findings that were not reproduced by the rate models. The final chapter summarizes main theses, results, and basic research implications, then suggests future directions, including expanded models of neocortical mismatch, applications to artificial neural networks, and the introduction of reward circuitry.
Books on the topic "Distracter suppression"
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Kiss, Monika. Searching for a color singleton among new items: No preliminary suppression of old distractor locations. Logos Verlag Berlin, 2006.
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Dienstag, Joshua Foa. Cinema Pessimism. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190067717.001.0001.
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Cinema Pessimism uses the medium of film to explore the dilemmas of democratic representation. When is representation an aid to democracy, and when is it an obstacle? Why are democratic populations so perpetually dissatisfied with their representatives? An exploration of film representation gives us a unique standpoint from which to answer these and other questions. Representation contains dangers for democracy, including its ability to foster illusions of power and freedom in a citizenry rather than genuine autonomy. Film itself can be a powerful political narcotic, suppressing rather than expressing the humanity that is supposed to flourish in democracy. Most popular films today, like many elected representatives, frustrate and interrupt democracy rather than sustain it. In its best form, however, representation, both filmic and political, can add something irreplaceable to our political life. Democratic citizens are hard to represent because human beings only reveal themselves over time. Representing them thus holds special challenges that this work explores. Great representatives and great representations are rare, but when they do appear, they enhance our politics by sustaining the reciprocity and equality that are at the heart of any well-ordered human society. We can draw these lessons from films even as we resist the increasing saturation of modern life with representations that distract or degrade us.
Conference papers on the topic "Distracter suppression"
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Liu, Kaiwen, Jin Gao, Haowei Liu, Liang Li, Bing Li, and Weiming Hu. "Exploring Motion Information for Distractor Suppression in Visual Tracking." In 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW). IEEE, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/cvprw56347.2022.00209.
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Gao, Guangjie, Yan Gao, Liyang Xu, Huibin Tan, and Yuhua Tang. "DSGA: Distractor-Suppressing Graph Attention for Multi-object Tracking." In ICRAI 2022: 2022 8th International Conference on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence. New York, NY, USA: ACM, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3573910.3573916.
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Wöstmann, Malte, Mohsen Alavash, and Jonas Obleser. "Distractor Suppression Uniquely Contributes to the Lateralized Alpha Response in Spatial Attention." In 2019 Conference on Cognitive Computational Neuroscience. Brentwood, Tennessee, USA: Cognitive Computational Neuroscience, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.32470/ccn.2019.1137-0.
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Kolarik, Tomas, Ivo Maly, and Zdenek Mikovec. "Suppressing external visual distractors from driver’s field of view." In 2018 IEEE 9th International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/coginfocom.2018.8639951.
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Tan, Wei Ren, and Shang-Hong Lai. "i-Siam: Improving Siamese Tracker with Distractors Suppression and Long-Term Strategies." In 2019 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop (ICCVW). IEEE, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iccvw.2019.00013.
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