Voluntary attention increases perceived spatial frequency

J Abrams, A Barbot, A Carrasco - Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2010 - Springer
Voluntary covert attention selects relevant sensory information for prioritized processing. The
behavioral and neural consequences of such selection have been extensively documented …

Voluntary attention enhances contrast appearance

T Liu, J Abrams, M Carrasco - Psychological science, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Voluntary (endogenous, sustained) covert spatial attention selects relevant sensory
information for prioritized processing. The behavioral and neural consequences of such …

How attention enhances spatial resolution: Evidence from selective adaptation to spatial frequency

M Carrasco, F Loula, YX Ho - Perception & Psychophysics, 2006 - Springer
In this study, we investigated how spatial resolution and covert attention affect performance
in a texture segmentation task in which performance peaks at midperiphery and drops at …

Covert spatial attention speeds target individuation

JJ Foster, EM Bsales, E Awh - Journal of Neuroscience, 2020 - Soc Neuroscience
Covert spatial attention has long been thought to speed visual processing. Psychophysics
studies have shown that target information accrues faster at attended locations than at …

Differential effects of endogenous and exogenous attention on sensory tuning

A Fernández, S Okun, M Carrasco - Journal of Neuroscience, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
Covert spatial attention (without concurrent eye movements) improves performance in many
visual tasks (eg, orientation discrimination and visual search). However, both covert …

Cross-modal attention enhances perceived contrast

M Carrasco - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Each time we open our eyes, we are confronted with an overwhelming amount of
information. How is it possible, then, that we still have a strong impression that we …

Spatial covert attention: Perceptual modulation

M Carrasco - The Oxford handbook of attention, 2014 - books.google.com
Each time we open our eyes we are confronted with an overwhelming amount of
information. Despite this, we experience a seemingly effortless understanding of our visual …

When size matters: attention affects performance by contrast or response gain

K Herrmann, L Montaser-Kouhsari, M Carrasco… - Nature …, 2010 - nature.com
Covert attention, the selective processing of visual information in the absence of eye
movements, improves behavioral performance. We found that attention, both exogenous …

Voluntary and involuntary spatial attentions interact differently with awareness

SM Hsu, N George, V Wyart, C Tallon-Baudry - Neuropsychologia, 2011 - Elsevier
Although the nature of the relationship between attention and awareness is actively
debated, the possibility that different forms of attention might interact differently with …

Grabbing attention without knowing: Automatic capture of attention by subliminal spatial cues

M Mulckhuyse, D Talsma, J Theeuwes - Visual Cognition, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
The present study shows that an abrupt onset cue that is not consciously perceived can
cause attentional facilitation followed by inhibition at the cued location. The observation of …