7 - biased competition as a model for selective attention

Question 1

How does competition without attention work?

Answer 1

Weighted responses to probe and reference stimulus. If you have sensory interaction plotted against selectivity, you can use the slope to determine which one is dominant. if the slope = 1, the probe is dominant, if slope = 0, the reference is dominant.

Question 2

If you pay attention to the probe, what happens to competition?

Answer 2

The competition gets biased. The attended object will have more influence in the pair response.

Question 3

What is the method of Reynolds?

Answer 3

Two experiments one without attention another with attention, presented individually and as a pair. neuronal responses - monkey