By contrast, searching visual scenes that contain a (relatively) salient feature singleton target reverses the PCN activation pattern, giving rise to stronger activations with reduced, rather than increased, target-distracter similarity.
The large-value version situated the subjects in a relatively salient environment (large value contrast), and large losses (e.g., -$1050) were rare.
Three-dimensional images of Vp and Vp/Vs reveal the southwestern part of the plateau was a relatively narrow salient, and the first part to be subducted.
Although the subjects were not informed explicitly of the outcome of the match-up, the subjects could recognize whether the outcome was a hit or an out because the subjects had sufficient experience with baseball, and relatively salient scenes (easy to infer the result by seeing the initial trajectory of the ball) were selected.
Moreover, N2pc amplitude was larger when the decoy was relatively salient compared to when the target was relatively salient.
In addition, we predicted that N2pc amplitude would increase when the decoy is relatively salient compared to when the target is relatively salient.
In addition, N2pc amplitude is larger when the decoy is relatively salient compared to when the target is relatively salient (see Figures 6 & 7a). Figure 7b shows the scalp distributions of the N2pc component.
When the decoy was relatively salient, it is likely that participants selected the salient decoy first and then shifted to the target [14] [15].
The N2pc data showed a main effect of relative salience at P7/8, F 1,12) = 6.37, p<0.05, ηp2 = 0.35, and a marginally significant main effect of relative salience at PO3/4, F 1,12) = 4.63, p = 0.052, ηp2 = 0.28, indicating that N2pc amplitude was larger when the decoy was relatively salient compared to when the target was relatively salient.
Specifically, we predicted that N2pc should be larger when the decoy is relatively salient which would be consistent with the idea that first the salient decoy is selected with a subsequent shift to the target.
When the decoy is relatively salient, it is likely that participants will first select the salient decoy and then subsequently select the target because the competition for representation is initially biased towards the most salient item in the display [1], [14] [15].
