Focused attention in three-dimensional space
- 1 March 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Perception & Psychophysics
- Vol. 47 (2) , 112-120
- https://doi.org/10.3758/bf03205975
Abstract
The size offocused attention was assessed within a three-dimensional display. Subjects viewed random-dot stereogram displays in which they responded differentially to vertical and horizontal bars. Adjacent noise elements either were identical to the response target or specified the opposite response. The position of the noise elements was varied in depth according to binocular disparity. Interference by incompatible noise elements decreased with depth separation between the noise elements and response target. In addition, interference was greater for noise elements that were more distant from the observer than from the response target than it was for noise elements that were closer to the observer than to the response target. The implications of these results for a viewer-centered representation of focused attention in depth are discussed.This publication has 27 references indexed in Scilit:
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