Experiment reveals that attention transforms the representational geometry of perceptual space, suggesting implications for cognitive and perceptual processes.
Key Points
Attention alters representational geometry, expanding space around attended features and compressing it around unattended ones.
Participants reported perceived similarity in orientations, revealing that attention significantly reshapes perceptual spaces.
The methodology involved manipulating attention while measuring similarity judgments across stimulus spaces.
These findings indicate that attention impacts the processing of features across the entire perceptual space, opening avenues for future research.