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Textures shape the attentional focus: evidence from exogenous and endogenous cueing

Textures shape the attentional focus: evidence from exogenous and endogenous cueing
Textures shape the attentional focus: evidence from exogenous and endogenous cueing
The spatial cueing paradigm (Posner Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 32:3-25, 1980) has often been used to investigate the time course of the deployment of visual attention in space. In a series of eight experiments we investigated whether spatial cues would not only enhance processing of stimuli presented at cued locations, but also enhance processing of the entire texture in which the stimuli were presented. Results showed highest accuracy for responses to stimuli presented at cued locations, a replication of the traditional cueing effect (Posner 1980). Additionally, stimuli presented at uncued locations were responded to with higher accuracy when they were presented inside the same texture as the cued location, as compared with stimuli presented outside the texture with the cued location. To investigate this texture advantage for both automatic and voluntary attention deployment, exogenous and endogenous cues were used. The texture advantage was observed for short interstimulus intervals (ISIs) of 50 and 100 ms for exogenous cues and for a longer ISI of 200 ms for endogenous cues. These findings indicate that the arrangement of task-irrelevant visual stimuli also can have a large impact on the cueing effect. This suggests that visual spatial attention spreads texture-wise across the visual field. Control experiments revealed that the homogeneity within texture elements contributes most to the effect but that the texture advantage is a function of both orientation contrast at the texture border and homogeneity within texture elements.
1943-3921
1644-1666
Feldmann-Wustefeld, Tobias
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Schubö, Anna
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Feldmann-Wustefeld, Tobias
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Schubö, Anna
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Feldmann-Wustefeld, Tobias and Schubö, Anna (2013) Textures shape the attentional focus: evidence from exogenous and endogenous cueing. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 75 (8), 1644-1666.

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The spatial cueing paradigm (Posner Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 32:3-25, 1980) has often been used to investigate the time course of the deployment of visual attention in space. In a series of eight experiments we investigated whether spatial cues would not only enhance processing of stimuli presented at cued locations, but also enhance processing of the entire texture in which the stimuli were presented. Results showed highest accuracy for responses to stimuli presented at cued locations, a replication of the traditional cueing effect (Posner 1980). Additionally, stimuli presented at uncued locations were responded to with higher accuracy when they were presented inside the same texture as the cued location, as compared with stimuli presented outside the texture with the cued location. To investigate this texture advantage for both automatic and voluntary attention deployment, exogenous and endogenous cues were used. The texture advantage was observed for short interstimulus intervals (ISIs) of 50 and 100 ms for exogenous cues and for a longer ISI of 200 ms for endogenous cues. These findings indicate that the arrangement of task-irrelevant visual stimuli also can have a large impact on the cueing effect. This suggests that visual spatial attention spreads texture-wise across the visual field. Control experiments revealed that the homogeneity within texture elements contributes most to the effect but that the texture advantage is a function of both orientation contrast at the texture border and homogeneity within texture elements.

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Published date: November 2013

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Local EPrints ID: 424415
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/424415
ISSN: 1943-3921
PURE UUID: 283f25db-97eb-4360-a383-628d479f7685

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Author: Tobias Feldmann-Wustefeld
Author: Anna Schubö

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