The phrase "attended targets" is not standard in written English and may cause confusion.
It could be used in a specific context where "attended" refers to targets that have been focused on or addressed, but clarity is needed.
Example: "The team successfully achieved the attended targets for the quarter, demonstrating their commitment to the project."
Alternatives: "addressed targets" or "focused targets".
Here, the process of updating visual location is described as predictive shifts of location 'pointers' to attended targets, analogous to predictive activation seen cross-modally.
Reaction to attended targets is faster than to unattended targets [1], and responses of neurons to covertly attended stimuli are enhanced relative to those of unattended stimuli [4], [5], [see 6 for a review], [7], [8].
Attentional activation was universally highest at the attended target but spread to other segments in a manner depending on eccentricity and/or target size.
Police, who estimated 21,000 people attended, targeted the crowds with sniffer dogs and took 22 people into custody for drugs-related offences.
Previous studies have described the topography of attention-related activation in retinotopic visual cortex for an attended target at one or a few locations within the subject's field of view.
The P300 electrogenesis exerts an inhibitory and/or disfacilitatory action over the cortical neuronal assemblies, subserving the parieto-prefrontal 40Hz phase-lock and conscious perceptual decision, thereby completing the cognitive processing of the attended target input when the latter has been identified.
The results showed a link between the neural representation of the attended target and its perceptual detectability over time.
The task that is generally used for eliciting a P300 wave is the oddball paradigm, where an attended target stimulus is infrequently presented between non-target stimuli.
In all three experiments, the relative positions of the attended target disk and the disk physically synchronous with the click were randomized across trials.
Such attended (target) features of a stimulus elicit a negative-going event-related brain potential (ERP), termed Selection Negativity (SN), which has been used as an index of selective feature processing.
Load theory [2] proposes that increasing processing load associated with an attended target will suppress perceptual processing of distractors due to progressive exhaustion of fixed processing capacity.
