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Follow the sign! Top-down contingent attentional capture of masked arrow cues
Please always quote using this URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-140030
- Arrow cues and other overlearned spatial symbols automatically orient attention according to their spatial meaning. This renders them similar to exogenous cues that occur at stimulus location. Exogenous cues trigger shifts of attention even when they are presented subliminally. Here, we investigate to what extent the mechanisms underlying the orienting of attention by exogenous cues and by arrow cues are comparable by analyzing the effects of visible and masked arrow cues on attention. In Experiment 1, we presented arrow cues with overall 50%Arrow cues and other overlearned spatial symbols automatically orient attention according to their spatial meaning. This renders them similar to exogenous cues that occur at stimulus location. Exogenous cues trigger shifts of attention even when they are presented subliminally. Here, we investigate to what extent the mechanisms underlying the orienting of attention by exogenous cues and by arrow cues are comparable by analyzing the effects of visible and masked arrow cues on attention. In Experiment 1, we presented arrow cues with overall 50% validity. Visible cues, but not masked cues, lead to shifts of attention. In Experiment 2, the arrow cues had an overall validity of 80%. Now both visible and masked arrows lead to shifts of attention. This is in line with findings that subliminal exogenous cues capture attention only in a top-down contingent manner, that is, when the cues fit the observer’s intentions.…
Author: | Heiko Reuss, Carsten Pohl, Andrea Kiesel, Wilfried Kunde |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-140030 |
Document Type: | Journal article |
Faculties: | Fakultät für Humanwissenschaften (Philos., Psycho., Erziehungs- u. Gesell.-Wissensch.) / Institut für Psychologie |
Language: | English |
Parent Title (English): | Advances in Cognitive Psychology |
Year of Completion: | 2011 |
Volume: | 7 |
Pagenumber: | 82-91 |
Source: | Advances in Cognitive Psychology, vol 7 (2011), 82-91 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.2478/v10053-008-0091-3 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
Tag: | Attention; arrow cues; contingent capture; masked priming; spatial cuing |
Release Date: | 2019/04/03 |
Licence (German): | CC BY: Creative-Commons-Lizenz: Namensnennung |