Single-Trial Inference on Visual Attention

Mads Dyrholm; Søren Kyllingsbæk; Signe Allerup Vangkilde; Thomas Habekost; Claus Bundesen

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Single-Trial Inference on Visual Attention

Mads Dyrholm, Søren Kyllingsbæk, Signe Allerup Vangkilde, Thomas Habekost, Claus Bundesen

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In this paper we take a step towards single-trial behavioral modeling within a Theory of Visual Attention (TVA). In selective attention tasks, such as the Partial Report paradigm, the subject is asked to ignore distractors and only report stimuli that belong to the target class. Nothing about a distractor is observed directly in the subject’s overt behavior, hence behavioral modeling of such trials involves out-marginalizing the variables that represent the distractors’ influence on behavior. In this paper we derive equations for inferring a latent representation of the distractors on a Partial Report trial. This result retrodicts a latent attentional state of the subject using the observed response from that particular trial and thus differs from other predictions made with TVA which are based on expected values of observed variables. We show an example of the result in single-trial analysis of an occipital EEG component.

Original language	English
Journal	AIP Conference Proceedings
Volume	1371
Pages (from-to)	37-43
Number of pages	7
ISSN	0094-243X
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3596625
Publication status	Published - 2011
Event	INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTATIONAL MODELS FOR LIFE SCIENCES - Toyama, Japan Duration: 11 Oct 2011 → 13 Oct 2011

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Conference	INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTATIONAL MODELS FOR LIFE SCIENCES
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Toyama
Period	11/10/2011 → 13/10/2011

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