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01-07-2006 | Original Article

The control of visual attention and its influence on prioritized processing in a location negative priming paradigm

Auteurs: Rico Fischer, Herbert Hagendorf

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 4/2006

Abstract

In a location-based negative priming paradigm, the possibility of a disengagement option of the underlying inhibitory mechanism was tested. Whereas in previous studies disengagement was observed when providing utility information about the probe trial structure, in the present study the allocation of visual attention to the stimuli was manipulated. In the first step an automatic deployment of visual attention was implemented by presenting all stimuli as abrupt onsets (Experiment 1), which demonstrated commonly observed negative priming effects. In further conditions of non-automatic allocation of visual attention in which target and distractor were presented as no-onset stimuli, negative priming effects were eliminated (Experiments 2 and 3). The preferred interpretation is that in conditions of automatic control of attention, target and distractor compete for control of action. A non-automatic control of visual attention, on the other hand, leads to a top-down modulated selection, which results in prioritized target encoding and a loss of distractor impact on the selection process. Alternative accounts and the role of no-onset distractor processing were investigated in Experiment 4.

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Note, even though no-onset targets are assumed to be processed efficiently in a no-onset condition with distractor presence, such a claim refers to the selection in a no-onset condition only. Hereby, the assumption of efficient no-onset target processing is not at odds with the observation that general RTs in no-onset trials are slowed compared with onset trials as seen in Experiments 1 and 2. A no-onset presentation can have several implications, which may account for overall slowed RTs. For example, no-onset trials can generally be experienced as more difficult. Also, the mask itself could be responsible for prolonged RTs in Experiment 2 (e.g., longer stimulus identification times)

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Titel: The control of visual attention and its influence on prioritized processing in a location negative priming paradigm
Auteurs: Rico Fischer
Herbert Hagendorf
Publicatiedatum: 01-07-2006
Uitgeverij: Springer-Verlag
Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research / Uitgave 4/2006
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-005-0220-2

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