注意力的空间而非时间定向提高了人类周边视觉的时间敏锐度。
Spatial but not temporal orienting of attention enhances the temporal acuity of human peripheral vision.
作者信息
Foerster Francois R, Giersch A, Cleeremans A
机构信息
Consciousness, Cognition and Computation Group (CO3), Center for Research in Cognition and Neurosciences (CRCN), ULB Neuroscience Institute (UNI), Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium.
Department of Life Sciences, Royal Military Academy (RMA), Brussels, Belgium.
出版信息
Commun Psychol. 2025 Jul 29;3(1):116. doi: 10.1038/s44271-025-00295-6.
The temporal acuity of a sensory system determines its capacity to detect delays between events, which enables following events in time and adapting behaviors accordingly. Whether and how voluntary attention drives visual temporal acuity is still unclear, especially in peripheral vision where attention is critical to avoid missing information. The present study aims at 1) evaluating whether cue-based spatial and temporal orientation of visual attention modulates the temporal acuity in peripheral vision, 2) assessing to what extent these modulations rely on shared or distinct attentional mechanisms, and 3) exploring whether these modulations are cumulative or independent from each other. Forty participants performed an asynchrony detection task in immersive virtual reality whilst electroencephalographic and pupillary dynamics were recorded. We found reductions of pupil constriction during the processing of attentional cues, suggesting that the pupil diameter represents a readout of the formation of spatiotemporal expectations. We further found that pre-target oscillatory dynamics in posterior theta and alpha bands are suppressed by both spatial and temporal orienting of attention, with cumulative effects, thus providing evidence for integrated mechanisms of spatial and temporal attention. Yet, despite these modulations, only explicit spatial orienting enhances the sensitivity to asynchronies. This highlights that explicit endogenous attention directed to space-but not to time-increases the temporal acuity under spatial uncertainty in peripheral vision. Overall, these results cast unambiguous doubts on the accepted trade-off that spatial attention meliorates spatial visual acuity while impeding temporal visual acuity, and thus call for the further refinement of models of visual attention.
感觉系统的时间敏锐度决定了其检测事件之间延迟的能力,这使得能够及时跟踪事件并相应地调整行为。自愿注意是否以及如何驱动视觉时间敏锐度仍不清楚,特别是在周边视觉中,注意对于避免错过信息至关重要。本研究旨在:1)评估基于线索的视觉注意的空间和时间定向是否会调节周边视觉的时间敏锐度;2)评估这些调节在多大程度上依赖于共享或不同的注意机制;3)探索这些调节是累积的还是相互独立的。40名参与者在沉浸式虚拟现实中执行异步检测任务,同时记录脑电图和瞳孔动态。我们发现在处理注意线索期间瞳孔收缩减少,这表明瞳孔直径代表了时空期望形成的一种读出。我们进一步发现,后颞叶和α波段的目标前振荡动态受到空间和时间注意定向的抑制,且具有累积效应,从而为空间和时间注意的整合机制提供了证据。然而,尽管有这些调节,只有明确的空间定向提高了对异步的敏感性。这突出表明,在外周视觉的空间不确定性下,明确的内源性注意指向空间而非时间会提高时间敏锐度。总体而言,这些结果对公认的空间注意改善空间视觉敏锐度而阻碍时间视觉敏锐度的权衡提出了明确质疑,因此需要进一步完善视觉注意模型。