Symbolic cues have always been thought to elicit voluntary orienting of attention. Arrows, as well as other centrally presented cues, could lead to reflexive shifts of attention, without showing, however, the biphasic pattern (initial facilitation / later inhibition) typical of peripheral automatic orienting. This study evaluated the role of awareness in endogenous orienting of attention, in order to understand whether it is necessary for either automatic or voluntary orienting, or both. Results showed a facilitation at brief cue-target intervals in both the aware and unaware conditions; a tendency to inhibition at longer intervals for non-predictive arrows, but only in the aware condition; a facilitation with no inhibition for predictive arrows, in both the aware and unaware conditions. Our results suggest that arrows can cause automatic shifts of endogenous attention, which can be triggered by unconsciously perceived cues, implying that awareness is not necessary for automatic attention to occur.

Unconscious perceived arrows yield an endogenous, automatic orienting of attention / Mereu, S; Casagrande, Maria. - STAMPA. - (2009), pp. 3070-3075. (Intervento presentato al convegno Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society tenutosi a Amsterdam nel July, 30th-August, 1.).

Unconscious perceived arrows yield an endogenous, automatic orienting of attention.

CASAGRANDE, Maria
2009

Abstract

Symbolic cues have always been thought to elicit voluntary orienting of attention. Arrows, as well as other centrally presented cues, could lead to reflexive shifts of attention, without showing, however, the biphasic pattern (initial facilitation / later inhibition) typical of peripheral automatic orienting. This study evaluated the role of awareness in endogenous orienting of attention, in order to understand whether it is necessary for either automatic or voluntary orienting, or both. Results showed a facilitation at brief cue-target intervals in both the aware and unaware conditions; a tendency to inhibition at longer intervals for non-predictive arrows, but only in the aware condition; a facilitation with no inhibition for predictive arrows, in both the aware and unaware conditions. Our results suggest that arrows can cause automatic shifts of endogenous attention, which can be triggered by unconsciously perceived cues, implying that awareness is not necessary for automatic attention to occur.
2009
Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society
Unconscious perception; Symbolic cues; Spatial orienting
04 Pubblicazione in atti di convegno::04b Atto di convegno in volume
Unconscious perceived arrows yield an endogenous, automatic orienting of attention / Mereu, S; Casagrande, Maria. - STAMPA. - (2009), pp. 3070-3075. (Intervento presentato al convegno Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society tenutosi a Amsterdam nel July, 30th-August, 1.).
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