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Measuring Attention and Visual Processing Speed by Model-based Analysis of Temporal-order Judgments

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Visible propagation from invisible exogenous cueing.

Zhicheng Lin¹, Scott O Murray

¹Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA. zhichenglin@gmail.com

Journal of Vision

|September 24, 2013

Summary

Unconscious attention can be flexible, moving with conscious visual motion perception. This "mobile cueing" shows unconscious processing is not automatic but controlled by awareness.

Keywords:

attention capture exogenous attention object-centered representation unconscious attention

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Visual Perception
Attention Studies

Background:

Conscious and unconscious processing were thought to be separate.
Unconscious processing influences perception and performance without awareness.

Purpose of the Study:

Investigate the propagation of unconscious exogenous cueing.
Determine if unconscious cueing is influenced by conscious motion perception.
Explore the flexibility and control mechanisms of unconscious attention.

Main Methods:

Utilized a paradigm combining masked exogenous cueing and apparent visual motion.
Manipulated cue-to-target distances (4° and 8°) to observe cueing effects.
Differentiated between conscious and unconscious cueing manifestations.

Main Results:

Unconscious exogenous cueing propagated with conscious motion perception at 4° distances.
The unconscious cueing effect diminished at 8° distances.
Conscious cueing was observed at both 4° and 8° distances.
Effects were attributed to top-down, tracking-based motion mechanisms, not attentional gradients or bottom-up processes.

Conclusions:

Introduced "mobile cueing" to describe unconscious cueing effects influenced by conscious motion.
Demonstrated flexibility in unconscious exogenous attention.
Highlighted a dissociation (unconscious attention without awareness) and association (contingent on conscious motion tracking) between attention and consciousness.
Provided evidence for controlled, non-automatic unconscious processing interacting with conscious awareness.