Successes and failures in producing attentional object-based cueing effects

Reppa, Irene, Schmidt, William C. and Leek, E. Charles (2011) Successes and failures in producing attentional object-based cueing effects. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 74 (1), 43-69. (doi:10.3758/s13414-011-0211-x).

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Abstract

Over 30 years of research using Posner's spatial cueing paradigm has shown that selective attention operates on representations of spatial locations, leading to space-based theories of attention. Manipulations of stimuli and methods have shown this paradigm to be sensitive to several types of object-based representations-providing evidence for theories incorporating object-based attentional selection. This paper critically evaluates the evidence demanding object-based explanations that go beyond positing spatial representations alone, with an emphasis on identifying and interpreting successes and failures in obtaining object-based cueing effects. This overview of current evidence is used to generate hypotheses regarding critical factors in the emergence and influence of object representations-their generation, strength, and maintenance-in the modulation of object-based facilitatory and inhibitory cueing effects.

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