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| Title: |
Time-course of Spatial-attentional Focusing in the Case of High Processing Demand on the Peripheral Precue |
| Author: |
Bachmann, Talis Mager, Kadri Sarv, Mari Kahusk, Neeme Turner, James |
| Appeared in: |
European journal of cognitive psychology |
| Paging: | Volume 11 (1999) nr. 2 pages 167-198 |
| Year: |
1999-06-01 |
| Contents: |
Subjects had to identify pairs of spatially overlapping or neighbouring letters exposed successively at various locations around the central fixation. The first letter (S1) in a pair acted both as a physical precue to indicate the S2 location and as a stimulus letter to be identified. The second letter (S2) in a pair acted only as a letter to be identified. The SOA was varied between 0 and 320 ms in different experiments. Comparison of the time-course functions of S2 identification in the conditions of (1) single pair presentation and (2) presentation of the letter pairs in the context of distractor letters that accompanied S2 in time, but occupied alternative spatial positions, revealed that S2 processing from the covert spatial-attentional focus was open to non-decreasing interference from the distractor letters up to 240 ms SOAs. An unexpected result consisted in equal level of S2 identification regardless of whether S1 had to be identified or not. This shows that if the peripheral precue has to be processed with higher processing demands at the identification level beyond simple location processing (which by itself is sufficient to fulfil the spatial orienting function), then the narrowing down or zooming-in of the attentional area in response to a physical precue can take place as effectively as in the case of a lesser processing demand on that precue. By comparing the relative time-course functions of S1 and S2 identification, it was found that S2 identification gained significant advantage over S1 identification at intermediate SOAs even if the intensity of S1 exceeded that of S2. The results of this investigation refer to the spontaneous, automatic nature of spatial attentional focusing that is evoked by spatially localised transient signals, but also to the possibility of interference between the targets and distractors in the working memory representation. |
| Publisher: |
Psychology Press |
| Source file: |
Elektronische Wetenschappelijke Tijdschriften |
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