Proactive selective attention across competition contexts
Blanca Aguado-López,
Ana F. Palenciano,
José M.G. Peñalver
et al.
Abstract:Selective attention is a cognitive function that helps filter out unwanted information. Theories as the biased competition model (Desimone & Duncan, 1995) explain how attentional templates bias processing towards targets in contexts where multiple stimuli compete for resources. However, it is unclear how the anticipation of different levels of competition influences the nature of attentional templates, in a proactive fashion. In this study, we used EEG to investigate how the anticipated demands of attentio… Show more
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