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Andy J. Kim; David S. Lee; James D. Grindell; Brian A. Anderson – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2024
Attention is biased toward features aligning with task goals and stimuli previously allocated attentional priority (selection history). The relationship between selection history and the strategic control of attention has scarcely been explored. In the present study, we utilized a modified version of the Adaptive Choice Visual Search (ACVS) task…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention, Visual Stimuli, Color
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Ronconi, Luca; Facoetti, Andrea; Bulf, Hermann; Franchin, Laura; Bettoni, Roberta; Valenza, Eloisa – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2014
Since subthreshold autistic social impairments aggregate in family members, and since attentional dysfunctions appear to be one of the earliest cognitive markers of children with autism, we investigated in the general population the relationship between infants' attentional functioning and the autistic traits measured in their parents.…
Descriptors: Infants, Parents with Disabilities, Autism, Prediction
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Wyble, Brad; Potter, Mary C.; Bowman, Howard; Nieuwenstein, Mark – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2011
Is one's temporal perception of the world truly as seamless as it appears? This article presents a computationally motivated theory suggesting that visual attention samples information from temporal episodes (episodic simultaneous type/serial token model; Wyble, Bowman, & Nieuwenstein, 2009). Breaks between these episodes are punctuated by periods…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Attention Control, Attention, Time
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Leszczynski, Marcin; Myers, Nicholas E.; Akyurek, Elkan G.; Schubo, Anna – Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2012
Visual STM (VSTM) is thought to be related to visual attention in several ways. Attention controls access to VSTM during memory encoding and plays a role in the maintenance of stored information by strengthening memorized content. We investigated the involvement of visual attention in recall from VSTM. In two experiments, we measured…
Descriptors: Recall (Psychology), Attention, Intervals, Attention Control
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Zehetleitner, Michael; Goschy, Harriet; Muller, Hermann J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
When searching for a "pop-out" target, interference from a salient but irrelevant distractor can be reduced or even prevented under certain circumstances. Here, five experiments were conducted to further our understanding of three different aspects of top-down interference reduction: first, whether or not qualitatively different search modes can…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention, Experiments, Reaction Time
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Linnell, Karina J.; Caparos, Serge – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
Caparos and Linnell (2009, 2010) used a variable-separation flanker paradigm to show that (a) when cognitive load is low, increasing perceptual load causes spatial attention to focus and (b) when perceptual load is high, decreasing cognitive load causes spatial attention to focus. Here, we tested whether the effects of perceptual and cognitive…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Attention Control, Attention, Cognitive Processes
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Koh, Ranieri Y. I.; Park, Taezoon; Wickens, Christopher D.; Ong, Lay Teng; Chia, Soon Noi – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 2011
This study investigated the effect of nursing experience on attention allocation and task performance during surgery. The prevention of cases of retained foreign bodies after surgery typically depends on scrub nurses, who are responsible for performing multiple tasks that impose heavy demands on the nurses' cognitive resources. However, the…
Descriptors: Surgery, Eye Movements, Nurses, Attention
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Frischen, Alexandra; Loach, Daniel; Tipper, Steven P. – Cognition, 2009
Selective attention is usually considered an egocentric mechanism, biasing sensory information based on its behavioural relevance to oneself. This study provides evidence for an equivalent allocentric mechanism that allows passive observers to selectively attend to information from the perspective of another person. In a negative priming task,…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention, Observation, Perspective Taking
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Couperus, Jane W. – Developmental Psychology, 2011
Research suggests that visual selective attention develops across childhood. However, there is relatively little understanding of the neurological changes that accompany this development, particularly in the context of adult theories of selective attention, such as N. Lavie's (1995) perceptual load theory of attention. This study examined visual…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention, Visual Perception, Children
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Tsal, Yehoshua; Benoni, Hanna – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
The substantial distractor interference obtained for small displays when the target appears alone is reduced in large displays when the target is embedded among neutral letters. This finding has been interpreted as reflecting low-load and high-load processing, respectively, thereby supporting the theory of perceptual load (Lavie & Tsal, 1994).…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Attention, Perception, Memory
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Macdonald, James S. P.; Lavie, Nilli – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2008
Although the perceptual load theory of attention has stimulated a great deal of research, evidence for the role of perceptual load in determining perception has typically relied on indirect measures that infer perception from distractor effects on reaction times or neural activity (see N. Lavie, 2005, for a review). Here we varied the level of…
Descriptors: Blindness, Response Style (Tests), Attention, Short Term Memory
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Heitz, Richard P.; Engle, Randall W. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2007
A time-course analysis of visual attention focusing (attentional constraint) was conducted in groups of participants with high and low working memory spans, a dimension the authors have argued reflects the ability to control attention. In 4 experiments, participants performed the Eriksen flanker paradigm under increasing levels of speed stress.…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Memory, Attention, Individual Differences
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Schmeichel, Brandon J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2007
This research tested the hypothesis that initial efforts at executive control temporarily undermine subsequent efforts at executive control. Four experiments revealed that controlling the focus of visual attention (Experiment 1), inhibiting predominant writing tendencies (Experiment 2), taking a working memory test (Experiment 3), or exaggerating…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Memory, Attention, Hypothesis Testing
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Buchholz, Judy; Davies, Anne Aimola – Dyslexia, 2008
Alerting, orienting and executive control of attention are investigated in five adult cases of dyslexia. In comparison with a control group, alerting and executive control were found to be generally intact for each case. Two spatial cueing tasks were employed. For the task requiring target detection, orienting difficulties were evident only in…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Reading Difficulties, Dyslexia, Adults
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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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