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