Social information rapidly prioritizes overt but not covert attention in a joint spatial cueing task

The effect of offset cues on saccade programming and covert attention

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology ◽

10.1177/1747021818759468 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 72 (3) ◽

pp. 481-490 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

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.

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Disentangling attention from action in the emotional spatial cueing task

Cognition & Emotion ◽

10.1080/02699931.2013.878688 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 28 (7) ◽

pp. 1223-1241 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Manon Mulckhuyse ◽

Geert Crombez

Keyword(s):

Spatial Cueing ◽

Cueing Task

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

Social Psychology ◽

10.1027/1864-9335/a000042 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 42 (1) ◽

pp. 48-55 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

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.

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Spatial Cueing Task--Modified

PsycTESTS Dataset ◽

10.1037/t80750-000 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Simona Stefan ◽

Alexandru Zorila ◽

Elena Brie

Keyword(s):

Spatial Cueing ◽

Cueing Task

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

Psychophysiology ◽

10.1111/psyp.12572 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 53 (2) ◽

pp. 237-251 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

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

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

Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience ◽

10.3389/fnagi.2021.644379 ◽

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.

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

Clinical Neurophysiology ◽

10.1016/j.clinph.2009.03.016 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 120 (6) ◽

pp. 1087-1095 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

Ellen Seiss ◽

Jon Driver ◽

Martin Eimer

Keyword(s):

Spatial Cueing ◽

Cueing Task

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How Quickly Can You Detect it?

Social Psychology ◽

10.1027/1864-9335/a000096 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 44 (1) ◽

pp. 37-41 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

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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