Publications by authors named "Liora Sekely"
Social cues such as gaze, head, and body orientation are essential for the survival of any social animal. The gaze cuing paradigm is a well-studied experimental manipulation, employed to detect automatic attentional shifts in humans. To the best of our knowledge, no previous study has tested non-primates in a paradigm that is similar to the one typically used on humans.
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- The study investigates the role of lower monocular channels in endogenous orienting of attention, suggesting they may have a functional impact alongside higher cortical structures.
- Using behavioral manipulation and a cue-target detection task, the research found that attention was directed more quickly when both cue and target were presented to the same eye.
- The findings imply that endogenous orienting involves both higher cortical mechanisms and lower monocular regions, indicating a more complex interaction in attention processes.
The literature has long emphasized the neocortex's role in volitional processes. In this work, we examined endogenous orienting in an evolutionarily older species, the archer fish, which lacks neocortex-like cells. We used Posner's classic endogenous cuing task, in which a centrally presented, spatially informative cue is followed by a target.
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