Dissociating the capture of attention from saccade activation by subliminal abrupt onsets.

Autor(en)

Tobias Schöberl, Ulrich Ansorge

Abstrakt

Attentional capture and effects on saccade metrics by subliminal abrupt onset cues have been studied with peripheral cues at one out of several (two to four) display locations, swiftly followed by additional onsets at the other display locations. The lead time of the cue was too short to be seen. Here, we were interested in whether such subliminal onset cues influenced saccades primarily by way of attention or by way of direct saccade activation. In separate blocks, participants made speeded pro-saccades towards a black target or anti-saccades away from the target. Prior to the targets, an abrupt onset cue was presented either at the same side as the target (valid condition) or at the opposite side (invalid condition). If cues influenced performance by way of attentional capture, we expected facilitation of target processing in valid compared to invalid conditions (cueing effect) in the pro- as well as in the anti-saccade task. If the cues activated saccades in their direction, we expected the cueing effect to drop in the anti-saccade task compared to the pro-saccade task because in the anti-saccade task the invalid cue would activate the finally required response, whereas the valid cue would activate the alternative response, leading to interference. Results were in line with the former of these possibilities suggesting that subliminal abrupt onsets influenced saccades by way of attention with no or little direct activation of saccades.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Psychologie der Kognition, Emotion und Methoden, Institut für Philosophie

Journal

Experimental Brain Research

Band

235

Seiten

3175-3191

Anzahl der Seiten

16

ISSN

0014-4819

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s00221-017-5040-2

Publikationsdatum

10-2017

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

501011 Kognitionspsychologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Neuroscience(all)

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/dissociating-the-capture-of-attention-from-saccade-activation-by-subliminal-abrupt-onsets(26ef308c-b771-4f74-a30e-c7f3d11396e7).html