Facilitatory or Inhibitory Nontarget Effects in the Location-Cuing Paradigm

Authors: Chastain G.¹; Cheal M.²

Source: Consciousness and Cognition, Volume 6, Number 2-3, 1997 , pp. 328-347(20)

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Abstract:

The effect of nontargets on the identification of targets in the location-cuing paradigm was investigated in order to determine whether observers consistently allocate their attention to a validly cued location and whether the effect of nontargets is to facilitate or to inhibit performance. In four experiments, the effects of a single matching nontarget or a single nonmatching nontarget were compared. In each experiment, it was shown that observers consistently allocate their attention to a cued location when a precue appears and that performance is inhibited more by nonmatching nontargets in the display than it is facilitated by matching nontargets.

Language: English

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Department of Psychology, Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, 83725 2: Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 85237-1104

Publication date: 1997-01-01