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Anderson, Brian A.; Yantis, Steven – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
Stimuli that have previously been associated with the delivery of reward involuntarily capture attention when presented as unrewarded and task-irrelevant distractors in a subsequent visual search task. It is unknown how long such effects of reward learning on attention persist. One possibility is that value-driven attentional biases are plastic…
Descriptors: Attention, Bias, Stimuli, Rewards
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Katagiri, Masatoshi; Kasai, Tetsuko; Kamio, Yoko; Murohashi, Harumitsu – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2013
The purpose of the present study was to determine whether individuals with Asperger's disorder exhibit difficulty in switching attention from a local level to a global level. Eleven participants with Asperger's disorder and 11 age- and gender-matched healthy controls performed a level-repetition switching task using Navon-type hierarchical…
Descriptors: Asperger Syndrome, Attention, Comparative Analysis, Stimuli
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Tummeltshammer, Kristen Swan; Mareschal, Denis; Kirkham, Natasha Z. – Child Development, 2014
With many features competing for attention in their visual environment, infants must learn to deploy attention toward informative cues while ignoring distractions. Three eye tracking experiments were conducted to investigate whether 6- and 8-month-olds (total N = 102) would shift attention away from a distractor stimulus to learn a cue-reward…
Descriptors: Attention, Infants, Infant Behavior, Cues
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Wyble, Brad; Folk, Charles; Potter, Mary C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2013
Attentional capture is an unintentional shift of visuospatial attention to the location of a distractor that is either highly salient, or relevant to the current task set. The latter situation is referred to as contingent capture, in that the effect is contingent on a match between characteristics of the stimuli and the task-defined…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Classification, Coding, Attention
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Du, Feng; Abrams, Richard A. – Cognition, 2012
To avoid sensory overload, people are able to selectively attend to a particular color or direction of motion while ignoring irrelevant stimuli that differ from the desired one. We show here for the first time that it is also possible to selectively attend to a specific line orientation--but with an important caveat: orientations that are…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Motion, Stimuli, Neurology
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Hsieh, Po-Jang; Colas, Jaron T. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
The contents of working memory (WM) have predominantly been viewed as necessarily conscious. However, recent findings suggest otherwise. Here we investigate whether visual WM can represent subliminal stimuli, such that the positions of an invisible moving object can be extrapolated or learned about in terms of their task-relevant predictive power.…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Short Term Memory, Visual Perception, Attention
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Maekawa, Toshihiko; Tobimatsu, Shozo; Inada, Naoko; Oribe, Naoya; Onitsuka, Toshiaki; Kanba, Shigenobu; Kamio, Yoko – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2011
Individuals with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (HF-ASD) often show superior performance in simple visual tasks, despite difficulties in the perception of socially important information such as facial expression. The neural basis of visual perception abnormalities associated with HF-ASD is currently unclear. We sought to elucidate the…
Descriptors: Autism, Visual Perception, Attention, Stimuli
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Frings, Christian; Wentura, Dirk; Wuhr, Peter – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
Research on the topic of distractor inhibition has used different empirical approaches to study how the human mind selects relevant information from the environment, and the results are controversially discussed. One key question that typically arises is how selection deals with the irrelevant information. We used a new selection task, in which…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Attention, Visual Perception, Inhibition
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Watson, Derrick G.; Blagrove, Elisabeth – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
Six experiments examined the influence of emotional valence on the tagging and enumeration of multiple targets. Experiments 1, 5 and 6 found that there was no difference in the efficiency of tagging/enumerating multiple negative or positive stimuli. Experiment 2 showed that, when neutral-expression face distractors were present, enumerating…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Visual Perception, Attention, Efficiency
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Allen, Richard J.; Baddeley, Alan D.; Hitch, Graham J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
How does executive attentional control contribute to memory for sequences of visual objects, and what does this reveal about storage and processing in working memory? Three experiments examined the impact of a concurrent executive load (backward counting) on memory for sequences of individually presented visual objects. Experiments 1 and 2 found…
Descriptors: Attention, Executive Function, Short Term Memory, Visual Perception
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Humphreys, Glyn W.; Wulff, Melanie; Yoon, Eun Young; Riddoch, M. Jane – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Two experiments are reported that use patients with visual extinction to examine how visual attention is influenced by action information in images. In Experiment 1 patients saw images of objects that were either correctly or incorrectly colocated for action, with the objects held by hands that were congruent or incongruent with those used…
Descriptors: Patients, Neurological Impairments, Spatial Ability, Stimuli
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Jans, Bert; Peters, Judith C.; De Weerd, Peter – Psychological Review, 2010
A growing number of studies claim that spatial attention can be split "on demand" into several, segregated foci of enhanced processing. Intrigued by the theoretical ramifications of this proposal, we analyzed 19 relevant sets of experiments using four methodological criteria. We typically found several methodological limitations in each study that…
Descriptors: Models, Visual Perception, Spatial Ability, Attention
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Fletcher-Watson, Sue; Leekam, Susan R.; Connolly, Brenda; Collis, Jess M.; Findlay, John M.; McConachie, Helen; Rodgers, Jacqui – British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2012
Change blindness refers to the difficulty most people find in detecting a difference between two pictures when these are presented successively, with a brief interruption between. Attention at the site of the change is required for detection. A number of studies have investigated change blindness in adults and children with autism spectrum…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Blindness, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
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Hills, Peter J.; Ross, David A.; Lewis, Michael B. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
Inversion disproportionately impairs recognition of face stimuli compared to nonface stimuli arguably due to the holistic manner in which faces are processed. A qualification is put forward in which the first point fixated on is different for upright and inverted faces and this carries some of the face-inversion effect. Three experiments explored…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Visual Perception, Human Body, Attention
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Greene, Deanna J.; Zaidel, Eran – Neuropsychologia, 2011
Research points to a right hemisphere bias for processing social stimuli. Hemispheric specialization for attention shifts cued by social stimuli, however, has been rarely studied. We examined the capacity of each hemisphere to orient attention in response to social and nonsocial cues using a lateralized spatial cueing paradigm. We compared the…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cues, Intervals, Stimuli
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