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Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research 4/2005

01-03-2005 | Original Article

The role of temporal and spatial factors in the covert orienting of visual attention tasks

Auteurs: Jim McAuliffe, Jay Pratt

Gepubliceerd in: Psychological Research | Uitgave 4/2005

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Abstract

There is a biphasic pattern in response times to peripheral uninformative cues, with faster responses to targets in cued locations when the stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) is under 300 ms and slower responses when it is over 300 ms. The effect has typically been attributed entirely to the SOA while ignoring other aspects of the cues (duration, spatial configuration). To examine these other factors, along with SOA, the present experiments included manipulations of SOA (50, 100, 200, 400, 800 ms), inter-stimulus interval (ISI; 0, 50, 100, 150, 200, 300, 350, 400, 500, 600, 700, and 750 ms), and whether or not the cue and target overlap in the same space. The results indicate that cueing effects depend on the combination of cue duration, ISI, SOA, and the spatial configuration of the cues and targets. Three factors are used to explain these time course results.
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We did not use a completely balanced design in this study. Therefore, we could not analyze SOA and ISI as separate factors. In order to analyze the effect of SOA and ISI it was necessary to create one factor to represent all combinations of SOA, ISI, and temporal overlap. This resulted in the SOA/ISI combinations factor having a large number of levels (i.e., 28 in Experiment 1 and 23 in Experiment 2). It should be noted that Collie et al. (2000) used a series of within participants t-tests to test the major hypothesis in their study. Although there are limitations with the ANOVA procedure used in this study we feel that it is the most appropriate analysis in this case.
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
The role of temporal and spatial factors in the covert orienting of visual attention tasks
Auteurs
Jim McAuliffe
Jay Pratt
Publicatiedatum
01-03-2005
Uitgeverij
Springer-Verlag
Gepubliceerd in
Psychological Research / Uitgave 4/2005
Print ISSN: 0340-0727
Elektronisch ISSN: 1430-2772
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-004-0179-4

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