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Burnham, Bryan R.; Neely, James H.; Naginsky, Yelena; Thomas, Matthew – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
After C. L. Folk, R. W. Remington, and J. C. Johnston (1992) proposed their contingent-orienting hypothesis, there has been an ongoing debate over whether purely stimulus-driven attentional capture can occur for visual events that are salient by virtue of a distinctive static property (as opposed to a dynamic property such as abrupt onset). The…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Criteria, Experiments, Evaluation Methods
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Scharff, Alec; Palmer, John; Moore, Cathleen M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
In perception, divided attention refers to conditions in which multiple stimuli are relevant to an observer. To measure the effect of divided attention in terms of perceptual capacity, we introduce an extension of the simultaneous-sequential paradigm. The extension makes predictions for fixed-capacity models as well as for unlimited-capacity…
Descriptors: Models, Attention Control, Classification, Classroom Techniques
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Prinzmetal, William; Ha, Ruby; Khani, Aniss – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
We tested 3 mechanisms of involuntary attention: (1) a perceptual enhancement mechanism, (2) a response-decision mechanism, and (3) a serial-search mechanism. Experiment 1 used a response deadline technique to compare the perceptual enhancement and the decision mechanisms and found evidence consistent with the decision mechanism. Experiment 2 used…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Cues, Predictor Variables, Perception Tests
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Donk, Mieke; Soesman, Leroy – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
Salient objects in the visual field tend to capture attention. The present study aimed to examine the time-course of salience effects using a probe-detection task. Eight experiments investigated how the salience of different orientation singletons affected probe reaction time as a function of stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) between the…
Descriptors: Reaction Time, Experiments, Investigations, Attention Control
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Chao, Hsuan-Fu – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
This study investigated the active inhibition of precued distractor locations. In this study, the distractor location was precued by an arrow. Experiment 1 indicated that a valid precue could facilitate target localization. Experiment 2 demonstrated that when conflict trials were included, the distractor precue benefit was eliminated. Experiment 3…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Inhibition, Experiments, Cues
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Roelofs, Ardi – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2008
Controversy exists about whether dual-task interference from word planning reflects structural bottleneck or attentional control factors. Here, participants named pictures whose names could or could not be phonologically prepared, and they manually responded to arrows presented away from (Experiment 1), or superimposed onto, the pictures…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Auditory Perception, Oral Language, Experiments
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Lien, Mei-Ching; Ruthruff, Eric; Goodin, Zachary; Remington, Roger W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2008
Theories of attentional control are divided over whether the capture of spatial attention depends primarily on stimulus salience or is contingent on attentional control settings induced by task demands. The authors addressed this issue using the N2-posterior-contralateral (N2pc) effect, a component of the event-related brain potential thought to…
Descriptors: Cues, Attention Control, Brain, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Bosbach, Simone; Prinz, Wolfgang; Kerzel, Dirk – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2004
To clarify whether motion information per se has a separable influence on action control, the authors investigated whether irrelevant direction of motion of stimuli whose overall position was constant over time would affect manual left-right responses (i.e., reveal a motion-based Simon effect). In Experiments 1 and 2, significant Simon effects…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Motion, Attention Control
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Ghorashi, S. M. Shahab; Smilek, Daniel; Di Lollo, Vincent – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2007
J. S. Joseph, M. M. Chun, and K. Nakayama (1997) found that pop-out visual search was impaired as a function of intertarget lag in an attentional blink (AB) paradigm in which the 1st target was a letter and the 2nd target was a search display. In 4 experiments, the present authors tested the implication that search efficiency should be similarly…
Descriptors: Visual Discrimination, Visual Stimuli, Spatial Ability, Inhibition
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Morein-Zamir, Sharon; Chua, Romeo; Franks, Ian; Nagelkerke, Paul; Kingstone, Alan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2007
Using a continuous tracking task, the authors examined whether stopping is resistant to expectancies as well as whether it is a representative measure of response control. Participants controlled the speed of a moving marker by continuously adjusting their response force. Participants stopped their ongoing tracking in response to auditory signals…
Descriptors: Sensory Experience, Psychomotor Skills, Motor Development, Attention Control
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Pinto, Yair; Olivers, Christian N. L.; Theeuwes, Jan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
Intuitively, dynamic visual stimuli, such as moving objects or flashing lights, attract attention. Visual search tasks have revealed that dynamic targets among static distractors can indeed efficiently guide attention. The present study shows that the reverse case, a static target among dynamic distractors, allows for relatively efficient…
Descriptors: Efficiency, Visual Stimuli, Motion, Attention Control
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Chen, Zhe; Cave, Kyle R. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
What happens after visual attention is allocated to an object? Although many theories of attention assume that all of its features are selected and processed, there has been little direct evidence that an irrelevant feature dimension of an attended nontarget is processed. In 5 experiments presented here, the authors used a singleton paradigm to…
Descriptors: Attention, Visual Perception, Visual Stimuli, Cognitive Processes
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Ganel, Tzvi; Goshen-Gottstein, Yonatan – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2004
The effects of familiarity on selective attention for the identity and expression of faces were tested using Garner's speeded-classification task. In 2 experiments, participants classified expression (or identity) of familiar and unfamiliar faces while the irrelevant dimension of identity (or expression) was either held constant (baseline…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Attention, Attention Control, Visual Discrimination
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Beck, Diane M; Lavie, Nilli – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2005
Distractor interference effects were compared between distractors in the periphery and those placed at fixation. In 6 experiments, the authors show that fixation distractors produce larger interference effects than peripheral distractors. However, the fixation distractor effects are modulated by perceptual load to the same extent as are peripheral…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Visual Perception, Visual Stimuli, Attention Control