| Grant number: | 16/04258-0 |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |
| Start date: | July 01, 2017 |
| End date: | February 29, 2020 |
| Field of knowledge: | Humanities - Psychology - Cognitive Psychology |
| Agreement: | Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) |
| Principal Investigator: | André Mascioli Cravo |
| Grantee: | Louise Catheryne Barne |
| Host Institution: | Centro de Matemática, Computação e Cognição (CMCC). Universidade Federal do ABC (UFABC). Ministério da Educação (Brasil). Santo André , SP, Brazil |
| Associated scholarship(s): | 18/08844-7 - Neural mechanisms of temporal anticipation in vision and audition, BE.EP.DR |
Abstract Attention is a fundamental process to optimize the computational capacity of a biological system. Knowing when and where something will happen facilitates the stimuli processing. In some situations, however, predictive mechanisms can also be used to inhibit responses, such as the attempting to ignore certain sound or visual stimulation. In both cases, we use anticipatory information, but with different purposes. While attentional processes have been extensively studied in recent years, expectation effects to inhibit processing are not well known. One alternative to study the processes separately is by using tasks where the expected stimuli do not require a behavioral response, that is, do not require attention. However, this protocol strategy complicates the inference about how the stimulus is being processed. Recently, studies have been developing new brain state decoding methods using EEG/MEG responses. Under these circumstances, we aim to use such methods to investigate the effects of attention and expectation on sensory processing. (AU) | |
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