Attention

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Do isoluminant color changes capture attention?

Four experiments are reported in which the effects of peripheral cues on visual orienting were investigated. In the luminance condition, the cues consisted of a peripheral change in stimulus luminance. In the isoluminance condition, the cues consisted of ...
Anthony Lambert, Ian Wells, Matthew Kean (Percept Psychophys, 200305)
isoluminant-color-changes-capture-attention.asp

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Separating perceptual and decisional attention processes in the identification and categorization of integral-dimension stimuli.

Four observers performed matching, identification, and categorization with stimuli that varied along the integral dimensions: brightness and saturation. General recognition theory (F. G. Ashby & J. T. Townsend, 1986) was applied to quantify the separate ...
W Todd Maddox, Jeffrey L Dodd (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200305)
separating-perceptual-decisional-attention-processes-identification.asp

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Priming and attentional control of lexical and sublexical pathways in naming: a reevaluation.

The authors report 3 naming experiments using J. D. Zevin and D. A. Balotas (2000) multiple prime manipulation. They used 2 sets of nonword primes (fast and slow) and low-frequency exception word primes to separate the effects of prime speed from those ...
Sachiko Kinoshita, Stephen J Lupker (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200305)
priming-attentional-control-lexical-sublexical-pathways-naming.asp

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Effects of fexofenadine, diphenhydramine, and placebo on performance of the test of variables of attention (TOVA).

OBJECTIVE: To determine the effects of diphenhydramine 50 mg and fexofenadine 180 mg on cognitive performance using the Test of Variables of Attention (TOVA), and to ascertain whether the TOVA was sufficiently sensitive to differentiate between the ...
Lyndon Mansfield, Catherine Mendoza, Jaime Flores, Suzanne G Meeves (Ann Allergy Asthma Immunol, 200305)
effects-fexofenadine-diphenhydramine-placebo-performance-test.asp

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Action video game modifies visual selective attention.

As video-game playing has become a ubiquitous activity in todays society, it is worth considering its potential consequences on perceptual and motor skills. It is well known that exposing an organism to an altered visual environment often results in ...
C Shawn Green, Daphne Bavelier (Nature, 200305)
action-video-game-modifies-visual-selective-attention.asp

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Seeing or hearing? Perceptual independence, modality confusions, and crossmodal congruity effects with focused and divided attention.

Observers were given brief presentations of pairs of simultaneous stimuli consisting of a visual and a spoken letter. In the visual focused-attention conditon, only the visual letter should be reported; in the auditory focused-attention condition, only ...
Axel Larsen, William McIlhagga, Jeroen Baert, Claus Bundesen (Percept Psychophys, 200305)
seeing-or-hearing-perceptual-independence-modality-confusions.asp

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Combined perceptual or motor-related expectancies modulated by type of cue.

The interaction of two expectancies was examined. These were either two perceptual or two response-related expectancies. Perceptual expectancies were induced by combining spatial cuing with feature cuing on a trial-by-trial basis. Cues consisted either ...
Uwe Mattler (Percept Psychophys, 200305)
combined-perceptual-or-motor-related-expectancies-modulated-type-cue.asp

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Preattentive evaluation of multiple perceptual streams in human audition.

To analyze an auditory scene, the segregation of the input into separate streams of information is necessary. Here, the mismatch negativity (MMN) of the event-related potential was used to trace the number of simultaneously monitored streams in auditory ...
Wido Nager, Wolfgang Teder-Sälejärvi, Sylvia Kunze, Thomas F Münte (Neuroreport, 200305)
preattentive-evaluation-multiple-perceptual-streams-human-audition.asp

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Effects of experience on fetal voice recognition.

The ability of human fetuses to recognize their own mothers voice was examined. Sixty term fetuses were assigned to one of two conditions during which they were exposed to a tape recording of their mother or a female stranger reading a passage. Voice ...
Barbara S Kisilevsky, Sylvia M J Hains, Kang Lee, Xing Xie, Hefeng Huang, Hai Hui Ye, Ke Zhang, Zengping Wang (Psychol Sci, 200305)
effects-experience-fetal-voice-recognition.asp

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When prejudice does not pay: effects of interracial contact on executive function.

This study examined the influence of interracial interaction on the cognitive functioning of members of a dominant racial group. White participants had a brief interaction with either a White or a Black confederate, and then completed an ostensibly ...
Jennifer A Richeson, J Nicole Shelton (Psychol Sci, 200305)
prejudice-not-pay-effects-interracial-contact-executive-function.asp