Our attention is influenced by past experiences, and recent studies have shown that individuals learn to extract statistical regularities in the environment, resulting in attentional suppression of locations that are likely to contain a distractor (high-probability location). However, little is known as to whether this learned suppression operates in retinotopic (relative to the eyes) or spatiotopic (relative to the world) coordinates. In the current study, two circular search arrays were presented side by side. Participants learned the high-probability location from a learning array presented on one side of the display (e.g., left). After several trials, participants shifted their gaze to the center of the other search array (e.g., located on the right side) and continued searching without any location probability (labelled as "test array"). Due to the saccade, the test array contained both a spatiotopic and a retinotopic matching location relative to the original high-probability location. The current findings show that, following saccadic eye movements, the learned suppression remained in retinotopic coordinates only, with no measurable transfer to spatiotopic coordinates. Even in a rich environment, attentional suppression still operated exclusively in retinotopic coordinates. We speculate that learned suppression may be resolved by changing synaptic weights in early visual areas.

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干扰抑制仅在视网膜专题坐标中起作用

我们的注意力受到过去经验的影响，最近的研究表明，个体学会提取环境中的统计规律，从而导致对可能包含干扰物的位置（高概率位置）的注意力抑制。然而，很少有人知道这种习得性抑制是在视网膜坐标（相对于眼睛）还是时空坐标（相对于世界）中起作用。在当前的研究中，并排呈现了两个圆形搜索阵列。参与者从显示器一侧（例如左侧）呈现的学习阵列中学习高概率位置。经过几次试验后，参与者将目光转移到另一个搜索阵列的中心（例如，位于右侧）并继续搜索，没有任何位置概率（标记为“测试阵列”）。由于眼跳，测试阵列包含相对于原始高概率位置的空间主题和视网膜主题匹配位置。目前的研究结果表明，在眼球扫视运动后，习得的抑制仅保留在视网膜专题坐标中，而没有可测量地转移到空间专题坐标。即使在丰富的环境中，注意力抑制仍然只在视网膜专题坐标中起作用。我们推测，习得性抑制可以通过改变早期视觉区域的突触权重来解决。