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Article Dans Une Revue Cerebral Cortex Année : 2023

The cost of attentional reorienting on conscious visual perception: an MEG study

Alfredo Spagna
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Zaira Romeo
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Tal Seidel-Malkinson
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Jianghao Liu
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Lydia Yahia-Cherif
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Ana Chica
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Paolo Bartolomeo
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Abstract How do attentional networks influence conscious perception? To answer this question, we used magnetoencephalography in human participants and assessed the effects of spatially nonpredictive or predictive supra-threshold peripheral cues on the conscious perception of near-threshold Gabors. Three main results emerged. (i) As compared with invalid cues, both nonpredictive and predictive valid cues increased conscious detection. Yet, only predictive cues shifted the response criterion toward a more liberal decision (i.e. willingness to report the presence of a target under conditions of greater perceptual uncertainty) and affected target contrast leading to 50% detections. (ii) Conscious perception following valid predictive cues was associated to enhanced activity in frontoparietal networks. These responses were lateralized to the left hemisphere during attentional orienting and to the right hemisphere during target processing. The involvement of frontoparietal networks occurred earlier in valid than in invalid trials, a possible neural marker of the cost of re-orienting attention. (iii) When detected targets were preceded by invalid predictive cues, and thus reorienting to the target was required, neural responses occurred in left hemisphere temporo-occipital regions during attentional orienting, and in right hemisphere anterior insular and temporo-occipital regions during target processing. These results confirm and specify the role of frontoparietal networks in modulating conscious processing and detail how invalid orienting of spatial attention disrupts conscious processing.

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hal-04272245 , version 1 (06-11-2023)

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Alfredo Spagna, Dimitri Bayle, Zaira Romeo, Tal Seidel-Malkinson, Jianghao Liu, et al.. The cost of attentional reorienting on conscious visual perception: an MEG study. Cerebral Cortex, 2023, 33 (5), pp.2048-2060. ⟨10.1093/cercor/bhac192⟩. ⟨hal-04272245⟩
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