Perceived state of self during motion can differentially modulate numerical magnitude allocation.
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Journal Article
Abstract
Although a direct relationship between numerical-allocation and spatial-attention has been proposed, recent research suggests these processes are not directly coupled. In keeping with this, spatial attention shifts induced either via visual or vestibular motion can modulate numerical allocation in some circumstances but not in others. In addition to shifting spatial attention, visual or vestibular motion-paradigms also (i) elicit compensatory eye-movements which themselves can influence numerical-processing and (ii) alter the perceptual-state of-"self", inducing changes in bodily self-consciousness impacting upon cognitive mechanisms. Thus, the precise mechanism by which motion modulates numerical-allocation remains unknown. We sought to investigate the influence that different perceptual experiences of motion have upon numerical magnitude allocation whilst controlling for both eye-movements and task-related effects. We first used optokinetic visual-motion stimulation (OKS) to elicit the perceptual experience of either "visual world" or "self"-motion during which eye movements were identical. In a second experiment we used a vestibular protocol examining the effects of perceived and subliminal angular rotations in darkness, which also provoked identical eye movements. We observed that during the perceptual experience of "visual-world" motion, rightward OKS biased judgments towards smaller numbers, whereas leftward OKS biased judgments towards larger numbers. During the perceptual experience of "self-motion", judgments were biased towards larger numbers irrespective of the OKS direction. Contrastingly, vestibular motion perception was found not to modulate numerical magnitude allocation, nor was there any differential modulation when comparing "perceived" versus "subliminal" rotations. We provide a novel demonstration that magnitude-allocation can be differentially modulated by the perceptual state of-self during visual-motion. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.
Date Issued
2016-07-16
Date Acceptance
2016-07-11
Citation
European Journal of Neuroscience, 2016, 44 (6), pp.2369-2374
ISSN
1460-9568
Publisher
Wiley
Start Page
2369
End Page
2374
Journal / Book Title
European Journal of Neuroscience
Volume
44
Issue
6
Copyright Statement
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Arshad, Q., Nigmatullina, Y., Roberts, R. E., Goga, U., Pikovsky, M., Khan, S., Lobo, R., Flury, A.-S., Pettorossi, V. E., Cohen-Kadosh, R., Malhotra, P. A. and Bronstein, A. M. (2016), Perceived state of self during motion can differentially modulate numerical magnitude allocation. Eur J Neurosci, 44: 2369–2374, which has been published in final form at https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ejn.13335. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance With Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.
Sponsor
Imperial College Trust
Grant Number
ICT/FD
Subjects
motion perception
numerical magnitude
spatial attention
vestibular cognition
Publication Status
Published