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Arrow-elicited cueing effects at short intervals: Rapid attentional orienting or cue-target stimulus conflict?

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Green, JJ; Woldorff, MG
Published in: Cognition
January 2012

The observation of cueing effects (faster responses for cued than uncued targets) rapidly following centrally-presented arrows has led to the suggestion that arrows trigger rapid automatic shifts of spatial attention. However, these effects have primarily been observed during easy target-detection tasks when both cue and target remain on the screen until the behavioral response. We manipulated stimulus duration and task difficulty in an attention-cueing experiment to explore non-attentional explanations for rapid cueing effects. Contrary to attention-based predictions, short-interval cueing effects were observed only for long-duration cue and target stimuli, occurred even when the cue and target were presented simultaneously, and were driven by slowing of the uncued-target responses, rather than any facilitation for cued targets. We propose that, under these long-duration, short-interval conditions, the processing of the cue and target interact more extensively in the brain, and that when the cue and target convey incongruent spatial information (i.e., on invalidly cued trials) it leads to conflict-related slowing of responses.

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Cognition

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1873-7838

Publication Date

January 2012

Volume

122

Issue

1

Start / End Page

96 / 101

Location

Netherlands

Related Subject Headings

  • Young Adult
  • Space Perception
  • Reaction Time
  • Photic Stimulation
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Electroencephalography
  • Cues
 

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Green, J. J., & Woldorff, M. G. (2012). Arrow-elicited cueing effects at short intervals: Rapid attentional orienting or cue-target stimulus conflict? Cognition, 122(1), 96–101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2011.08.018
Green, Jessica J., and Marty G. Woldorff. “Arrow-elicited cueing effects at short intervals: Rapid attentional orienting or cue-target stimulus conflict?Cognition 122, no. 1 (January 2012): 96–101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2011.08.018.
Green, Jessica J., and Marty G. Woldorff. “Arrow-elicited cueing effects at short intervals: Rapid attentional orienting or cue-target stimulus conflict?Cognition, vol. 122, no. 1, Jan. 2012, pp. 96–101. Pubmed, doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2011.08.018.
Journal cover image

Published In

Cognition

DOI

EISSN

1873-7838

Publication Date

January 2012

Volume

122

Issue

1

Start / End Page

96 / 101

Location

Netherlands

Related Subject Headings

  • Young Adult
  • Space Perception
  • Reaction Time
  • Photic Stimulation
  • Male
  • Humans
  • Female
  • Experimental Psychology
  • Electroencephalography
  • Cues