Response-mediated spatial priming despite perfectly valid target location cues and intervening response events

Hilchey, Matthew D., Rajsic, Jason, Huffman, Greg and Pratt, Jay (2017) Response-mediated spatial priming despite perfectly valid target location cues and intervening response events. Visual Cognition, 25 (9-10). pp. 888-902. ISSN 1350-6285

[img]
Preview
Text
HilcheyRajsicHuffmanPratt2017b.pdf - Accepted Version

Download (1MB) | Preview
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2017.1349230

Abstract

Attentional effects are often inferred from keypress reaction time (RT) studies when two sequentially presented stimuli, appearing at the same location, generate costs or benefits. The universality of these attentional attributions is challenged by data from perceptual discrimination tasks, which reveal that location repetition benefits and costs depend on whether a prior response repeats or switches, respectively. According to dual-stage accounts, these post-attentional effects may be abolished by making responses in between two target stimuli or by increasing target location certainty, leaving only attentional effects. Here, we test these accounts by requiring responses to stimuli in between targets and by increasing target location certainty with 100% valid location cues. Contrary to expectations, there was no discernible effect of cueing on any repetition effects, although the intervening response diminished stimulus-response repetition effects while subtly reducing location-response repetition effects. Despite this, there was little unambiguous evidence of attentional effects independent of responding. Taken together, the results further highlight the robustness of location-response repetition effects in perceptual discrimination tasks, which challenge whether there are enduring attentional effects in this paradigm.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: spatial priming, inhibition of return, episodic integration, attention, memory
Subjects: C800 Psychology
Department: Faculties > Health and Life Sciences > Psychology
Depositing User: Ay Okpokam
Date Deposited: 05 Dec 2019 10:22
Last Modified: 31 Jul 2021 20:22
URI: http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/41677

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item

Downloads

Downloads per month over past year

View more statistics