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Selective attention within the foveola
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Poletti M
; Rucci M
; Carrasco M
Nat Neurosci
2017[Oct]; 20
(10
): 1413-1417
PMID28805816
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Efficient control of attentional resources and high-acuity vision are both
fundamental for survival. Shifts in visual attention are known to covertly
enhance processing at locations away from the center of gaze, where visual
resolution is low. It is unknown, however, whether selective spatial attention
operates where the observer is already looking-that is, within the high-acuity
foveola, the small yet disproportionally important rod-free region of the retina.
Using new methods for precisely controlling retinal stimulation, here we show
that covert attention flexibly improves and speeds up both detection and
discrimination at loci only a fraction of a degree apart within the foveola.
These findings reveal a surprisingly precise control of attention and its
involvement in fine spatial vision. They show that the commonly studied covert
shifts of attention away from the fovea are the expression of a global mechanism
that exerts its action across the entire visual field.