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Master's Dissertation
DOI
https://doi.org/10.11606/D.42.2014.tde-10072014-154339
Document
Author
Full name
Fabrício Bacchini Dias
Institute/School/College
Knowledge Area
Date of Defense
Published
São Paulo, 2013
Supervisor
Committee
Valle, Luiz Eduardo Ribeiro do (President)
Fukusima, Sergio Sheiji
Xavier, Gilberto Fernando
Title in Portuguese
O efeito da carga perceptual sobre pistas periféricas em uma tarefa vai/não vai.
Keywords in Portuguese
Atenção visual
Neurociências
Psicofísica
Tempo de reação
Abstract in Portuguese
Resultados anteriores de nosso laboratório em tarefas de tempo de reação vai/não-vai utilizando uma pista periférica sugerem que a presença do efeito atencional depende da saliência do alvo em relação ao distraidor. O objetivo deste trabalho foi examinar e estender esses resultados assumindo a hipótese de que a interferência de estímulos irrelevantes é menor em condições de alta carga perceptual. No experimento 1, confirmando resultados anteriores, registramos o efeito atencional quando o alvo era uma linha vertical e o distraidor era uma linha horizontal, porém, quando esses estímulos desempenhavam papel oposto, não houve mobilização da atenção. Supusemos que uma maior saliência perceptual da linha vertical em relação à linha horizontal pode ter sido o fator responsável pela ausência do efeito atencional quando a linha vertical assumiu o papel de distraidor. Testamos essa hipótese nos experimentos 2 e 3, onde removemos o distraidor e diminuímos sua saliência, respectivamente. Nos dois casos, registramos o efeito atencional para a linha horizontal. Esse resultado é consistente com a hipótese de menor saliência perceptual da linha horizontal em relação à vertical e também com a hipótese da carga perceptual. O objetivo do experimento 4 foi identificar um dos possíveis fatores responsáveis pela menor saliência da linha horizontal. Replicamos o experimento 1, porém diminuindo a luminosidade da tela, para testarmos um possível efeito de enquadramento, e obtivemos o efeito atencional, como previsto. Porém, ao repetirmos o mesmo experimento, aumentando a saliência dos distraidores, registramos o efeito atencional apenas na condição em que o alvo era a linha vertical. Embora os fatores responsáveis pela maior saliência relativa da linha vertical ainda não estejam claros, o conjunto de resultados corrobora a hipótese de que o processamento da pista é prejudicado em condições de maior carga perceptual.
Title in English
The effect of perceptual load on peripheral cues during a go/no-go task.
Keywords in English
Neuroscience
Psychophysics
Reaction time
Visual attention
Abstract in English
Previous studies from our laboratory suggest that the presence of the attentional effect in go/no-go reaction time tasks using a peripheral cue depends on the salience of the go target stimulus in relation to the distactor. The aim of this study was to examine and extend these results, assuming the hypothesis that there is less interference of irrelevant stimuli during conditions of high perceptual load. In experiment 1, we obtained an attentional effect when the go target was a vertical line and the distractor was a horizontal line, but no effect when the go target was the horizontal line and the distractor was the vertical line. We suggested that a greater perceptual salience of the vertical line relative to the horizontal line might be the factor responsible for the absence of the attentional effect when the vertical line was the distractor. We tested this hypothesis in experiments 2 and 3, where we removed the distractor and reduced its salience, respectively. In both cases, we observed an attentional effect for the horizontal line. This result is consistent with the hypothesis of greater salience of the vertical line relative to the horizontal line and also with the perceptual load hypothesis. The aim of experiment 4 was to identify a possible factor responsible by the smaller perceptual salience of the horizontal line. We replicated experiment 1, but reducing the luminosity of the monitor screen, as a test for a possible framing effect, and obtained an attentional effect as expected. However, when we repeated the same experiment, raising the perceptual salience of the distractors, we observed an attentional effect only when the vertical line was the go target. Although the factors responsible for the greater perceptual salience of the vertical line relative to the horizontal line are not clear yet, our results support the hypothesis that the sensory processing of the cue is reduced in conditions of higher perceptual load.
 
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2014-07-11
 
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