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Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research 6/2012

01-11-2012 | Original Article

Spatial orienting of attention in stereo depth

Auteurs: Dieter Bauer, Axel Plinge, Walter H. Ehrenstein, Gerhard Rinkenauer, Marc Grosjean

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 6/2012

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Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the spatial orienting of visual attention in depth under purely stereoscopic viewing conditions. Random-dot stereograms were used to present disparity-defined target stimuli that were either validly or invalidly cued in depth. In separate tasks, participants responded either to the relative depth of the target (protruding vs. receding) or to its shape (square vs. diamond). Stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs) between an uninformative exogenous cue and target were varied from 250 to 600 ms. For both tasks, mean response times (RTs) were shorter for validly than invalidly cued target depths and this RT advantage was essentially restricted to the shortest SOA of 250 ms. These results indicate that attention can be reflexively allocated to locations in stereo depth under conditions of low perceptual load, and independent of whether depth is relevant to the task or not.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Spatial orienting of attention in stereo depth
Auteurs
Dieter Bauer
Axel Plinge
Walter H. Ehrenstein
Gerhard Rinkenauer
Marc Grosjean
Publicatiedatum
01-11-2012
Uitgeverij
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Gepubliceerd in
Psychological Research / Uitgave 6/2012
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-011-0396-6

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