Citation

Feng J, Spence I. Iperception 2014; 5(2): 97-100.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, 100 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; e-mail: ian.spence@utoronto.ca.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1068/i0625rep

PMID

25469215

PMCID

PMC4249996

Abstract

Biases exist in many perceptual and cognitive functions. Since visual attention plays an important role in a wide range of perceptual and cognitive processes, any bias in the spatial distribution of attention is likely to be a significant source of perceptual and cognitive asymmetries. An attentional visual field task (AVF) requiring localization of a target among distractors was used to assess possible asymmetries in attentional processing in the vertical meridian. The results showed a bias favoring the upper visual field, suggesting a potentially important role of attention in perceptual and cognitive asymmetries.

Language: en