Latency facilitation in temporal-order judgments

Autor(en)
Ingrid Scharlau, Ulrich Ansorge, Gernot Horstmann
Abstrakt

The paper is concerned with two models of early visual processing which predict that priming of a visual mask by a preceding masked stimulus speeds up conscious perception of the mask (perceptual latency priming). One model ascribes this speed-up to facilitation by visuo-spatial attention [Scharlau, I., & Neumann, O. (2003a). Perceptual latency priming by masked and unmasked stimuli: Evidence for an attentional explanation. Psychological Research 67, 184-197], the other attributes it to nonspecific upgrading mediated by retino-thalamic and thalamo-cortical pathways [Bachmann, T. (1994). Psychophysiology of visual masking: The fine structure of conscious experience. Commack, NY: Nova Science Publishers]. The models make different predictions about the time course of perceptual latency priming. Four experiments test these predictions. The results provide more support for the attentional than for the upgrading model. The experiments further demonstrate that testing latency facilitation with temporal-order judgments may induce a methodological problem resulting in fairly low estimates. A method which provides a more exhaustive measure is suggested and tested.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Psychologie der Kognition, Emotion und Methoden
Externe Organisation(en)
Universität Bielefeld
Journal
Acta Psychologica
Band
122
Seiten
129-159
Anzahl der Seiten
31
ISSN
0001-6918
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2005.10.006
Publikationsdatum
06-2006
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
501006 Experimentalpsychologie, 501011 Kognitionspsychologie
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/5a80f652-ddfa-4896-88f6-6d16a128d2d3