Attention and ageing: Measuring effects of involuntary and voluntary orienting in isolation and in combination

2014 ◽  
Vol 106 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bettina Olk ◽  
Alan Kingstone
Keyword(s):  
Voluntary Orienting

How Voluntary is ‘Voluntary’ Orienting of Attention?

Cortex ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 841-845 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Decaix ◽  
Eric Siéroff ◽  
Paolo Bartolomeo
Keyword(s):  
Voluntary Orienting

scholarly journals Erratum to “Voluntary orienting is dissociated from target detection in human posterior parietal cortex”

10.1038/74905 ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 3 (5) ◽  
pp. 521-521 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurizio Corbetta ◽  
J. Michelle Kincade ◽  
John M. Ollinger ◽  
Marc P. McAvoy ◽  
Gordon L. Shulman
Keyword(s):  
Target Detection ◽  
Parietal Cortex ◽  
Posterior Parietal Cortex ◽  
Posterior Parietal ◽  
Voluntary Orienting

Measuring effects of voluntary attention: A comparison among predictive arrow, colour, and number cues

2014 ◽  
Vol 67 (10) ◽  
pp. 2025-2041 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bettina Olk ◽  
Elena Tsankova ◽  
A. Raisa Petca ◽  
Adalbert F. X. Wilhelm
Keyword(s):  
Information Processing ◽  
The Other ◽  
Voluntary Attention ◽  
Cueing Effect ◽  
Direction Information ◽  
Voluntary Orienting

The Posner cueing paradigm is one of the most widely used paradigms in attention research. Importantly, when employing it, it is critical to understand which type of orienting a cue triggers. It has been suggested that large effects elicited by predictive arrow cues reflect an interaction of involuntary and voluntary orienting. This conclusion is based on comparisons of cueing effects of predictive arrows, nonpredictive arrows (involuntary orienting), and predictive numbers (voluntary orienting). Experiment 1 investigated whether this conclusion is restricted to comparisons with number cues and showed similar results to those of previous studies, but now for comparisons to predictive colour cues, indicating that the earlier conclusion can be generalized. Experiment 2 assessed whether the size of a cueing effect is related to the ease of deriving direction information from a cue, based on the rationale that effects for arrows may be larger, because it may be easier to process direction information given by symbols such as arrows than that given by other cues. Indeed, direction information is derived faster and more accurately from arrows than from colour and number cues in a direction judgement task, and cueing effects are larger for arrows than for the other cues. Importantly though, performance in the two tasks is not correlated. Hence, the large cueing effects of arrows are not a result of the ease of information processing, but of the types of orienting that the arrows elicit.

Mechanisms of Moving the Mind's Eye: Planning and Execution of Spatial Shifts of Attention

2004 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 742-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chad J. Hazlett ◽  
Marty G. Woldorff
Keyword(s):  
Visual Field ◽  
Attentional Orienting ◽  
Planning Stage ◽  
Attentional Shift ◽  
Attentional Shifts ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
Mind's Eye ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Voluntary Orienting ◽  
Insight Into

The usefulness of attentional orienting, both in the real world and in the laboratory, depends not only on the ability to attend to objects or other inputs but also on the ability to shift attention between them. Although understanding the basic characteristics of these shifts is a critical step toward understanding the brain mechanisms that produce them, the literature remains unresolved on a very basic and potentially revealing characteristic of these shifts—namely, whether attention takes longer to shift a farther distance across the visual field. We addressed this question using a series of behavioral tasks involving the voluntary orienting of attention to locations in the visual field. The findings support a model in which attentional shifts include separate “planning” and “execution” stages and in which only the planning stage requires more time for shifts of a greater distance. These results offer resolution to the longstanding debate concerning the effect of attentional shift distance on shift time and provide insight into the fundamental mechanisms of attentional shifting.

Voluntary orienting is dissociated from target detection in human posterior parietal cortex

10.1038/73009 ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 292-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurizio Corbetta ◽  
J. Michelle Kincade ◽  
John M. Ollinger ◽  
Marc P. McAvoy ◽  
Gordon L. Shulman
Keyword(s):  
Target Detection ◽  
Parietal Cortex ◽  
Posterior Parietal Cortex ◽  
Posterior Parietal ◽  
Voluntary Orienting

Automatic and voluntary orienting of attention in patients with visual neglect: Horizontal and vertical dimensions

1994 ◽  
Vol 32 (10) ◽  
pp. 1195-1208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisabetta Làdavas ◽  
Monica Carletti ◽  
Guido Gori
Keyword(s):  
Visual Neglect ◽  
Voluntary Orienting

scholarly journals Dorsal Posterior Parietal rTMS Affects Voluntary Orienting of Visuospatial Attention

2004 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 628-638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregor Thut ◽  
Annika Nietzel ◽  
Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Keyword(s):  
Visuospatial Attention ◽  
Posterior Parietal ◽  
Voluntary Orienting

Involuntary but not voluntary orienting contributes to a disengage deficit in visual neglect

Cortex ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 46 (9) ◽  
pp. 1149-1164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bettina Olk ◽  
Helmut Hildebrandt ◽  
Alan Kingstone
Keyword(s):  
Visual Neglect ◽  
Voluntary Orienting
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