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Responses guide attention.

Sunghyun Kim¹, Yang Seok Cho¹

¹School of Psychology, Korea University, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

|February 27, 2025

Summary

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This study reveals that learned motor responses, not just stimuli, can guide attention to specific locations. This response-induced attention effect demonstrates how our actions shape our perception and improve search efficiency.

Keywords:

Action Attention Ideomotor Responses Visual search

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience
Human Attention Studies

Background:

Learning stimulus-response regularities is vital for effective functioning.
The impact of these learned regularities on attentional selection is not fully understood.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if motor responses predicting search target locations can direct attention.
To explore the phenomenon of response-induced attention.

Main Methods:

Participants engaged in a dual task: an identification task followed by a search task.
In the acquisition phase, responses to central stimuli predicted search target locations.
Test phases altered stimuli while maintaining response-location contingencies to isolate the effect of responses.

Main Results:

Faster search target detection occurred at response-cued locations, indicating an attentional bias.
This effect persisted even when the original stimuli predicting locations were changed, confirming response-driven attention.
The study confirmed that responses, rather than visual cues, guided attention.

Conclusions:

Motor responses play a significant role in the intelligent allocation of attention.
Learned response-stimulus regularities can shape attentional selection, highlighting the importance of the motor system in perception.