Attention to arrows: Pointing to a new direction

被引:138
作者
Ristic, Jelena [1 ]
Kingstone, Alan [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ British Columbia, Dept Psychol, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
基金
加拿大自然科学与工程研究理事会;
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10.1080/17470210500416367
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
It was long believed that central arrows needed to be spatially predictive to produce a shift in spatial attention. Recent evidence indicates, however, that central spatially nonpredictive directional cues, like arrows, will trigger reflexive shifts in attention. We asked what this recent discovery means for past studies that used predictive directional cues such as arrows. Our findings indicate that predictive arrows produce attention effects that greatly exceed the individual or summed effects of reflexive orienting to nonpredictive arrows and volitional orienting to predictive numbers. This suggests that the especially large effect produced by predictive arrows reflects an interaction between reflexive and volitional orienting. Given the broad application of the predictive arrow cueing paradigm in both past and current research, the present data shed new light on a wide range of investigations, from psychophysical studies of basic attention to behavioural and neuroimaging studies of cognition and social development.
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页码:1921 / 1930
页数:10
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