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We examined whether the time course of exogenous spatial-cuing effects is sensitive to the allocation of attention in time. Expectation for a target within a particular time window following the cue was manipulated by varying the proportion of trials that appeared at each of three stimulus onset asynchronies in both a detection task and a two-alternative forced-choice discrimination task. The time course of spatial-cuing effects was sensitive to the temporal expectation manipulation only in the discrimination task. The results are discussed with reference to the role of attentional set in exogenous spatialcuing paradigms.
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The research reported in this article was funded by an NSERC research grant awarded to B.M. and by Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture Research Grant BSO2000-1503 awarded to J.L.
Note—This article was accepted by the previous editorial team, while John T. Wixted was editor.
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Milliken, B., Lupiáñez, J., Roberts, M. et al. Orienting in space and time: Joint contributions to exogenous spatial cuing effects. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 10, 877–883 (2003). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03196547
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