Selective attention and interhemispheric response competition in the split-brain |
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Authors: | Lambert A Naikar N |
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Institution: | Research Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience and Department of Psychology, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand. a.lambert@auckland.ac.nz |
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Abstract: | The interfering effect of an unattended stimulus on processing of an attended item was studied in a single split-brain participant (LB) and in normal controls. Pairs of letters were presented to the left visual field (LVF), right visual field (RVF), or bilaterally. Participants attended to the rightmost letter while attempting to ignore the leftmost letter. Responses associated with the attended and to-be-ignored letters could be compatible or incompatible. Manual response latencies were generally slower on Response Incompatible compared to Response Compatible trials. Notably, LB displayed this effect on Bilateral trials, where target and distractor were presented to opposite visual fields. LB was unable to perform a same-different matching task with bilateral letter stimuli, but was able to name bilateral letters accurately. Hence, in the bilateral condition, the ability to cross-compare letters was dissociated from attentional interference and from letter naming. Implications of these findings are discussed. |
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Keywords: | Key Words: split-brain commissurotomy selective attention |
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