Citation

Tsal Y, Lavie N. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 1993; 19(1): 131-139.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1993, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8440981

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.

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