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Hilkenmeier, Frederic; Olivers, Christian N. L.; Scharlau, Ingrid – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
The law of prior entry states that attended objects come to consciousness more quickly than unattended ones. This has been well established in spatial cueing paradigms, where two task-relevant stimuli are presented near-simultaneously at two different locations. Here, we suggest that prior entry also plays a pivotal role in temporal attention…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Resource Allocation, Cues, Experiments
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West, Greg L.; Anderson, Adam A. K.; Pratt, Jay – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
Previous studies that have found attentional capture effects for stimuli of motivational significance do not directly measure initial attentional deployment, leaving it unclear to what extent these items produce attentional capture. Visual prior entry, as measured by temporal order judgments (TOJs), rests on the premise that allocated attention…
Descriptors: Serial Ordering, Time Perspective, Spatial Ability, Attention