scholarly journals Simultaneous modeling of reaction times and brain dynamics in a spatial cueing task

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon R. Steinkamp ◽  
Gereon R. Fink ◽  
Simone Vossel ◽  
Ralph Weidner
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Times ◽  
Brain Dynamics ◽  
Spatial Cueing ◽  
Cueing Task ◽  
Simultaneous Modeling

scholarly journals The effect of offset cues on saccade programming and covert attention

2018 ◽  
Vol 72 (3) ◽  
pp. 481-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel T Smith ◽  
Soazig Casteau
Keyword(s):  
Reaction Times ◽  
Motor Preparation ◽  
Covert Attention ◽  
Oculomotor Control ◽  
Covert Orienting ◽  
Cueing Task ◽  
Tightly Coupled ◽  
Saccade Programming ◽  
Saccadic Reaction Times ◽  
Saccade Preparation

Salient peripheral events trigger fast, “exogenous” covert orienting. The influential premotor theory of attention argues that covert orienting of attention depends upon planned but unexecuted eye-movements. One problem with this theory is that salient peripheral events, such as offsets, appear to summon attention when used to measure covert attention (e.g., the Posner cueing task) but appear not to elicit oculomotor preparation in tasks that require overt orienting (e.g., the remote distractor paradigm). Here, we examined the effects of peripheral offsets on covert attention and saccade preparation. Experiment 1 suggested that transient offsets summoned attention in a manual detection task without triggering motor preparation planning in a saccadic localisation task, although there were a high proportion of saccadic capture errors on “no-target” trials, where a cue was presented but no target appeared. In Experiment 2, “no-target” trials were removed. Here, transient offsets produced both attentional facilitation and faster saccadic responses on valid cue trials. A third experiment showed that the permanent disappearance of an object also elicited attentional facilitation and faster saccadic reaction times. These experiments demonstrate that offsets trigger both saccade programming and covert attentional orienting, consistent with the idea that exogenous, covert orienting is tightly coupled with oculomotor activation. The finding that no-go trials attenuates oculomotor priming effects offers a way to reconcile the current findings with previous claims of a dissociation between covert attention and oculomotor control in paradigms that utilise a high proportion of catch trials.

Disentangling attention from action in the emotional spatial cueing task

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (7) ◽  
pp. 1223-1241 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manon Mulckhuyse ◽  
Geert Crombez
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Cueing ◽  
Cueing Task

scholarly journals Unintended Allocation of Spatial Attention to Goal-Relevant but Not to Goal-Related Events

2011 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julia Vogt ◽  
Jan De Houwer ◽  
Agnes Moors
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Attention ◽  
Goal Pursuit ◽  
Spatial Cueing ◽  
Cueing Task ◽  
Automatic Goal Pursuit

We investigated whether words relevant to a person’s current goal and words related to that goal influence the orienting of attention even when an intention to attend to the goal-relevant and goal-related stimuli is not present. Participants performed a modified spatial cueing paradigm combined with a second task that induced a goal. The results showed that the induced goal led to the orienting of attention to goal-relevant words in the spatial cueing task. This effect was not found for goal-related words. The results provide evidence for accounts of automatic goal pursuit, which state that goals automatically guide attention to goal-relevant events.

scholarly journals Keep Calm and Pump Up the Jams: How Musical Mood and Arousal Affect Visual Attention

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 205920432092273
Author(s):  
Angela Marti-Marca ◽  
Tram Nguyen ◽  
Jessica A. Grahn
Keyword(s):  
Visual Attention ◽  
Significant Interaction ◽  
Memory Performance ◽  
Reaction Times ◽  
Background Music ◽  
Attention Task ◽  
High Arousal ◽  
Induced Mood ◽  
Cueing Task ◽  
Intermediate Performance

Music is a prevalent part of everyday life and there has been a great deal of interest in the possibility that music facilitates cognition, including memory. Listening to background music has a modulatory effect on internal mood and arousal states, putting the listeners at the optimal levels necessary to enhance memory performance. However, there has been little research on how music-induced mood and arousal influence other aspects of cognition, in particular attention. The aim of the current study was to examine the effect of background music on visual attention. Participants rated an assortment of music clips on mood and arousal levels. The clips that participants rated most positive or negative in mood and highest or lowest in arousal were used during an adaptation of the Posner cueing task ( Posner, 1980 ). This visual attention task was either performed in silence or while listening to background music. A significant interaction between mood and arousal was observed. Participants were fastest when listening to high arousal positive music and slowest when listening to high arousal negative music. Intermediate performance occurred for low arousal negative and low arousal positive music. Thus, changes in music-induced mood and arousal can indeed alter reaction times, with opposite effects observed for high arousal music based on whether it is perceived as positive or negative in mood. However, there is no evidence that musical mood and arousal affect attention because mood and arousal levels do not alter the effect of congruency on either reaction times or accuracy. Thus, although reaction times are faster in the presence of high arousal positive music, this appears unrelated to effects on attention.

Spatial Cueing Task--Modified

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simona Stefan ◽  
Alexandru Zorila ◽  
Elena Brie
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Cueing ◽  
Cueing Task

Effect of working memory load on electrophysiological markers of visuospatial orienting in a spatial cueing task simulating a traffic situation

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 237-251 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Y. Vossen ◽  
Veerle Ross ◽  
Ellen M. M. Jongen ◽  
Robert A. C. Ruiter ◽  
Fren T. Y. Smulders
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Memory Load ◽  
Traffic Situation ◽  
Working Memory Load ◽  
Spatial Cueing ◽  
Cueing Task

scholarly journals Effect of Cognitive Control on Attentional Processing of Emotional Information Among Older Adults: Evidence From an Eye-Tracking Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haining Liu ◽  
Haihong Liu ◽  
Feng Li ◽  
Buxin Han ◽  
Cuili Wang
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Cognitive Control ◽  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Healthy Aging ◽  
Older Individuals ◽  
Younger Adults ◽  
Spatial Cueing ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Cueing Task ◽  
Engagement And Disengagement

Background: Although numerous studies have suggested that the gradually increasing selective preference for positive information over negative information in older adults depends on cognitive control processes, few have reported the characteristics of different attention stages in the emotional processing of older individuals. The present study used a real-time eye-tracking technique to disentangle the attentional engagement and disengagement processes involved in age-related positivity effect (PE).Methods: Eye movement data from a spatial-cueing task were obtained for 32 older and 32 younger healthy participants. The spatial-cueing task with varied cognitive loads appeared to be an effective way to explore the role of cognitive control during the attention engagement and disengagement stages of emotion processing.Results: Compared with younger adults, older participants showed more positive gaze preferences when cognitive resources were sufficient for face processing at the attention engagement stage. However, the age-related PE was not observed at the attention disengagement stage because older adults had more difficulty disengaging from fearful faces than did the younger adults due to the consumption of attention by the explicit target judgment.Conclusion: The present study highlights how cognitive control moderates positive gaze preferences at different attention processing stages. These findings may have far-reaching implications for understanding, preventing, and intervening in unsuccessful aging and, thus, in promoting active and healthy aging.

Effects of attentional filtering demands on preparatory ERPs elicited in a spatial cueing task

2009 ◽  
Vol 120 (6) ◽  
pp. 1087-1095 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Seiss ◽  
Jon Driver ◽  
Martin Eimer
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Cueing ◽  
Cueing Task

scholarly journals How Quickly Can You Detect it?

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Letitia Slabu ◽  
Ana Guinote ◽  
David Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Stimulus Onset Asynchrony ◽  
Cognitive Flexibility ◽  
High Power ◽  
Social Power ◽  
Stimulus Onset ◽  
Spatial Cueing ◽  
Cueing Task ◽  
Onset Asynchrony

This study investigated how power impacts the ability to orient attention across space. Participants were assigned to a high-power or control role and then performed a computerized spatial cueing task that required them to direct their attention to a target preceded by either a valid or invalid location cue. Compared to participants in the control condition, power holders were better at overriding the misinformation provided by invalid cues. This advantage occurred only at 500 ms stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA), whereas at 1000 ms SOA, when there was more time to prepare a response, no differences were found. These findings are taken to support the growing idea that social power affects cognitive flexibility.

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