Cole, Geoff G and Kuhn, Gustav (2009) Appearance matters: Attentional orienting by new objects in the precueing paradigm. Visual Cognition, 17 (5). pp. 755-776. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/13506280802611582
Cole, Geoff G and Kuhn, Gustav (2009) Appearance matters: Attentional orienting by new objects in the precueing paradigm. Visual Cognition, 17 (5). pp. 755-776. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/13506280802611582
Cole, Geoff G and Kuhn, Gustav (2009) Appearance matters: Attentional orienting by new objects in the precueing paradigm. Visual Cognition, 17 (5). pp. 755-776. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/13506280802611582
Abstract
Five experiments examined whether the appearance of a new object is able to orient attention in the absence of an accompanying sensory transient. A variant of the precueing paradigm (Posner &Cohen, 1984) was employed in which the cue was the onset of a new object. Crucially, the new object's appearance was not associated with any unique sensory transient. This was achieved by using the variant "annulus" procedure recently developed by Franconeri, Hollingworth, and Simons (2005). Results showed that unless observers had an attentional set explicitly biased against onset, a validity effect was observed such that response times were shorter for targets occurring at the location of the new object relative to when targets occurred at the location of the "old" object. We conclude that new onsets do not need to be associated with a unique sensory transient in order to orient attention.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Psychology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 12 Nov 2011 20:12 |
Last Modified: | 23 Oct 2024 04:57 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/1212 |