Temporal contextual cuing of visual attention.

Autor: Olson IR; Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. iolson@boreas.med.yale.edu, Chun MM
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition [J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn] 2001 Sep; Vol. 27 (5), pp. 1299-313.
DOI: 10.1037//0278-7393.27.5.1299
Abstrakt: Previous research has shown how spatial attention is guided to a target location, but little is understood about how attention is allocated to an event in time. The authors introduce a paradigm to manipulate the sequential structure of visual events independent of responses. They asked whether this temporal context could be implicitly learned and used to guide attention to a relative point in time or location, or both, in space. Experiments show that sequentially structured event durations, event identities, and spatiotemporal event sequences can guide attention to a point in time as well as to a target event's identity and location. Cuing was found to rely heavily on the element immediately preceding the target, although cuing from earlier items also was evident. Learning was implicit in all cases. These results show that the sequential structure of the visual world plays an important role in guiding visual attention to target events.
Databáze: MEDLINE