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Does oculomotor readiness mediate exogenous capture of visual attention?
- Source :
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. 41:1260-1270
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- American Psychological Association (APA), 2015.
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Abstract
- The oculomotor readiness hypothesis makes 2 predictions: Shifts in covert attention are accompanied by preparedness to move one's eyes to the attended region, and preparedness to move one's eyes to a region in space is accompanied by a shift in covert attention to the prepared location. Both predictions have been disconfirmed using an endogenous attention task. In the 2 experiments presented here, the same 2 predictions were tested using an exogenous attention task. It was found that participants experienced covert capture without accompanying oculomotor activation and experienced oculomotor activation without accompanying covert capture. While under everyday conditions the overt and covert orienting systems may be strongly linked, apparently they can nonetheless operate with a high degree of independence from one another. (PsycINFO Database Record Language: en
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Adolescent
Eye Movements
genetic structures
Injury control
Accident prevention
Poison control
Attention task
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
behavioral disciplines and activities
Young Adult
Behavioral Neuroscience
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Humans
Visual attention
Attention
Eye movement
Covert
Space Perception
Preparedness
Visual Perception
Female
Psychology
Social psychology
Psychomotor Performance
psychological phenomena and processes
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 19391277 and 00961523
- Volume :
- 41
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b2356f07e17ed3ace66c2d76d9db8eab