Attention

Question 1

Current take on when attention modulation occurs

Answer 1

• Modulation occurs at multiple processing stages

Question 2

Is attention modulation based on spatial location or object representations

Answer 2

• spatial and object based modulation are only two types of modulation among many types including some that are not based on receptive field properties

Question 3

Accurate contemporary definition of selective attention

Answer 3

Psychological and neural functions for prioritisation and selection of information to guide adaptive behaviour

Question 4

Biased competition model

Answer 4

Holds that cognitive interactions between objects (or features) for neuronal output is biased through both bottom up and tope down mechanisms
Attention guides integration of objects overcoming binding problem