Mechanisms of temporal preparation in stimulus selection

• Applicant: Dr. Verena Seibold
• Subject Area: General, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology
• Term: from 2017 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 391742416

• Final Report Year: 2024

Final Report Abstract

In the present project, we systematically investigated the influence of temporal preparation on selective processes within perception. To this end, we conducted two separate experimental series, in which we targeted distinct selection mechanisms: In experimental series A, we focused on the effect of temporal preparation on spatial selection; in experimental series B, we focused on the effect of temporal preparation on dimension-based selection. While the results of experimental series B did not provide further-reaching insights regarding the influence of temporal preparation on dimension-based selection, experimental series A did not only provide clear-cut evidence for a spatial selection benefit due to temporal preparation, but also points towards a nonspecific increase in stimulus salience as an underlying mechanism.

Publications

• Temporal preparation facilitates bottom-up processes in spatial selection. Posterpräsentation auf der 61. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), London.
  Balke, J. & Seibold, V. C.
  
• Temporal preparation facilitates bottomup salience rather than top-down inhibition of distractors in visual search. Posterpräsentation auf der 21. Tagung der European Society for Cognitive Psychology (ESCoP), Teneriffa.
  Balke, J., Rolke, B. & Seibold, V. C.
  
• Temporal preparation increases bottom-up salience of distracting stimuli in visual search. Posterpräsentation auf der 9. A-DOK (Doktoranden-Workshop der Fachgruppe Allgemeine Psychologie), Mannheim.
  Balke, J., Rolke, B. & Seibold, V. C.
  
• Increased N2pc for salient distractors indicates a bottom-up effect of temporal preparation in spatial selection. Posterpräsentation auf der 46. Tagung Psychologie und Gehirn (PuG), Tübingen (Virtuelle Konferenz).
  Balke, J., Rolke, B. & Seibold, V. C.
  
• Reduction of temporal uncertainty facilitates stimulus-driven processes in spatial selection. Biological Psychology, 159, 108028.
  Balke, Janina; Rolke, Bettina & Seibold, Verena C.
  
• Temporal preparation accelerates bottom-up processing - Evidence from the N1 and the N2pc. Präsentation auf der 63. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Ulm (Virtuelle Konferenz).
  Balke, J., Rolke, B. & Seibold, V. C.
  
• Does temporal preparation influence bottom-up salience in spatial selection? Evidence from the N2pc. Vortrag auf der 64. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TeaP), Köln (Virtuelle Konferenz).
  Balke, J., Rolke, B. & Seibold, V. C.
  
• Signal enhancement or noise exclusion? Effect of temporal preparation on perceptual processes. Posterpräsentation auf der 15. Tagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Kognitionswissenschaft e.V. (KogWis), Freiburg.
  Balke, J., Rolke, B. & Seibold, V. C.
  
• Temporal preparation accelerates spatial selection by facilitating bottom-up processing. Brain Research, 1777, 147765.
  Balke, Janina; Rolke, Bettina & Seibold, Verena C.