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Spatial Cueing
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Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University Attention refers to the limited human ability to select some information for processing at the expense of other stimuli in the environment. Attention operates in all sensory modalities: vision, hearing, touch, even taste and smell. It is most often studied in the visual domain though. A common way to study visual attention is with a spatial cueing paradigm. This paradigm allows researchers to measure the consequences of focusing...
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A Protocol for Measuring Cue Reactivity in a Rat Model of Cocaine Use Disorder
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Cue reactivity is conceptualized as sensitivity to cues linked with drug-taking experiences that contribute to craving and relapse in abstinent humans. Cue reactivity is modeled in rats by measuring attentional orientation toward drug-associated cues that results in appetitive approach behavior in a cue reactivity test following self-administration and forced abstinence.
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Self-Presentation
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Self-presentation is a fundamental aspect of social interaction, shaping both how others perceive individuals and how they view themselves. This dynamic process influences behaviors in various social settings, often leading people to adjust their appearance, speech, and demeanor to align with their desired identity. While self-presentation can be deliberate or unconscious, it plays a critical role in interpersonal relationships and self-perception.Forms of Self-PresentationSelf-presentation can...
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Measuring Sensitivity to Viewpoint Change with and without Stereoscopic Cues
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We discuss a novel method forviewpoint-rotation of visual stimuli, and demonstrate using a mirror stereoscopethe three-dimensional percept of rotation-in-depth. The technique can be used to investigate the role of stereoscopic cues in encoding viewpoint-rotated figures.
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Decoding Auditory Imagery with Multivoxel Pattern Analysis
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2023
Source: Laboratories of Jonas T. Kaplan and Sarah I. Gimbel—University of Southern California Imagine the sound of a bell ringing. What is happening in the brain when we conjure up a sound like this in the "mind's ear?" There is growing evidence that the brain uses the same mechanisms for imagination that it uses for perception.1 For example, when imagining visual images, the visual cortex becomes activated, and when imagining sounds, the auditory cortex is engaged. However, to what extent are...
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Each sound feature can be manipulated independently or in combination to test different aspects of auditory processing. Frequency changes the sound’s pitch, intensity changes its strength, duration controls exposure time, and timing determines when information becomes available relative to a task or event. Comparing responses across these conditions helps identify which stimulus properties influence discrimination, orienting, choice, or reaction time.
Researchers vary whether a sound is merely detectable, linked to a task demand, or predictive of a reward or consequence, then compare behavioral outcomes. Differences in responding can reveal whether performance reflects noticing the cue, learning its significance, directing attention, or selecting a response. This separation is important because similar behaviors may arise from different underlying processes.
Timing establishes the relationship between a sound and the behavior or event that follows, making it possible to test whether the cue predicts a task demand, reward, or consequence. Repetition allows researchers to examine consistency and changes across presentations. Together, these variables help evaluate orienting, conditioning, attention, and other forms of cognitive processing.
A study typically selects the behavioral response of interest, specifies the sound features to manipulate, and determines when and how often cues will occur. Researchers then present controlled auditory conditions while recording responses such as discrimination, choice, orienting, or reaction time. Comparing outcomes across conditions shows how changes in the cues affect behavior.
Auditory cues are useful when researchers need to examine how organisms detect sounds, assign them meaning, or use them to guide behavior. In conditioning studies, cues can predict rewards or consequences. In perception research, responses reveal discrimination or detection. Communication and cognitive studies can use the same approach to assess interpretation, attention, and decisions prompted by sound.
Controlling frequency, intensity, duration, timing, and repetition reduces unintended differences between experimental conditions. This improves reproducibility across subjects and experiments and makes behavioral comparisons easier to interpret. When a response changes, researchers can more confidently relate that change to the manipulated auditory feature rather than to inconsistent stimulus delivery, supporting clearer conclusions about perception or cognition.