Location dominance in attending to color and shape.
- 1 January 1993
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance
- Vol. 19 (1) , 131-139
- https://doi.org/10.1037//0096-1523.19.1.131
Abstract
Four experiments investigated whether Ss direct attention to stimulus location when attempting to attend to its color or shape. In the first 2 experiments a given property (location, color, or shape) of a letter cue instructed Ss whether to report any letters from a subsequent display. Regardless of which property was relevant, Ss reported letters adjacent to the cue and not those similar to its color or shape. In the last 2 experiments, the varied location of a cue was irrelevant to the task, whereas its varied color instructed Ss to report a letter in a given location or of a given shape. Targets adjacent to the cue were reported faster than those remote from the cue. The results suggest that attempting to attend to any aspect of a stimulus entails directing attention to its location.Keywords
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