Top-Down Contingencies in Peripheral Cuing

Autor(en)
Ulrich Ansorge, Manfred Heumann
Abstrakt

According to contingent-processing accounts, peripheral cuing effects are due to the cues' inadvertent selection for processing by control settings set up for targets (e.g., C. L. Folk, R. W. Remington, & J. C. Johnston, 1992). Consequently, cues similar to targets should have stronger effects than do dissimilar cues. In the current study, this prediction is confirmed for cue-target combinations similar or dissimilar in the static features of color (Experiments 1-3) and location (Experiment 4), even when both cues and targets share the dynamic feature of abrupt onset. Perceptual priming (Experiment 2) and reallocation of attention did not account for similar-dissimilar differences (Experiments 3 and 4). The results are best explained by top-down-contingent attentional effects of the similar cues. Implications for bottom-up accounts of peripheral cuing effects are discussed.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Psychologie der Kognition, Emotion und Methoden
Externe Organisation(en)
Universität Bielefeld
Journal
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
Band
29
Seiten
937-948
Anzahl der Seiten
12
ISSN
0096-1523
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-1523.29.5.937
Publikationsdatum
10-2003
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
501006 Experimentalpsychologie, 501011 Kognitionspsychologie
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Behavioral Neuroscience
Link zum Portal
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/topdown-contingencies-in-peripheral-cuing(60ebca94-c5ff-48fc-8357-3daa69457159).html