Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

Visual prior entry.

D I Shore1, C Spence, R M Klein

  • 1Department of Psychology, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. dshore@mcmaster.ca

Psychological Science
|July 5, 2001
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

The effects of unilateral deprivation amblyopia on fixation stability.

Frontiers in neuroscience·2026
Same author

Modelling Subarctic watershed dissolved organic carbon response to hydroclimatic regime.

The Science of the total environment·2022
Same author

[Autopneumonectomie. A Forgotten Disease].

Pneumologie (Stuttgart, Germany)·2020
Same author

On the selection of endogenous and exogenous signals.

Royal Society open science·2019
Same author

Eye Tracking Effort Expenditure and Autonomic Arousal to Social and Circumscribed Interest Stimuli in Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Journal of autism and developmental disorders·2019
Same author

The independence of endogenous and exogenous temporal attention.

Attention, perception & psychophysics·2018
Same journal

Does Overconfidence Really Confer Adaptive Benefits to Children's Learning?

Psychological science·2026
Same journal

How Does the Mind Grow? Cross-Cultural Intuitive Theories of Mental Development.

Psychological science·2026
Same journal

Not All Practice Is Created Equal: Longitudinal Evidence From Over 40,000 Chess Players.

Psychological science·2026
Same journal

Eye Glint as a Novel Perceptual Cue in Human Vision.

Psychological science·2026
Same journal

Multitarget Visual Search Flexibly Switches Between Concurrent and Sequential Search Modes.

Psychological science·2026
Same journal

Motive Alignment Promotes Adolescents' Proenvironmental Behavior: A Field Experiment in Two Cultures.

Psychological science·2026
See all related articles

The doctrine of prior entry suggests attended stimuli are perceived first. This study confirms prior entry effects using a novel method that minimizes response bias, even with attentional cuing.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Psychology
  • Visual Perception

Background:

  • The doctrine of prior entry posits that attended stimuli are perceived before unattended stimuli.
  • Previous research is debated due to potential response bias confounds.
  • The existence of prior entry remains controversial in scientific literature.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the doctrine of prior entry.
  • To develop a novel methodology minimizing response bias in attention research.
  • To determine if prior entry effects persist under controlled attentional conditions.

Main Methods:

  • Implemented a novel methodology orthogonally manipulating attention and response demands.
  • Oriented spatial attention to the left or right.

Related Experiment Videos

  • Required observers to report stimulus order (line segment orientation) rather than location.

    • Main Results:

    • Demonstrated second-order response biases.
    • Clearly obtained effects of attention consistent with the law of prior entry.
    • Confirmed prior entry effects with both exogenous and endogenous attentional cuing.

    Conclusions:

    • The law of prior entry is supported by empirical evidence.
    • The novel methodology effectively minimizes response bias.
    • Prior entry is a robust phenomenon, observable even when response biases are controlled.