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Hollingworth, Andrew; Maxcey-Richard, Ashleigh M.; Vecera, Shaun P. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
Attention operates to select both spatial locations and perceptual objects. However, the specific mechanism by which attention is oriented to objects is not well understood. We examined the means by which object structure constrains the distribution of spatial attention (i.e., a "grouped array"). Using a modified version of the Egly et…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Spatial Ability, Attention, Cues
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Brockmole, James R.; Henderson, John M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2005
The authors examined the prioritization of abruptly appearing objects in real-world scenes by measuring the eyes' propensity to be directed to the new object. New objects were fixated more often than chance whether they appeared during fixations (transient onsets) or saccades (nontransient onsets). However, onsets that appeared during fixations…
Descriptors: Eye Movements, Memory, Object Manipulation, Psychomotor Skills