Journal article
Distinguishing between the precision of attentional localization and attentional resolution
Perception & psychophysics, Vol.70(4), pp.573-582
05/2008
DOI: 10.3758/PP.70.4.573
PMCID: PMC6490958
PMID: 18556920
Abstract
Attentional resolution is a construct that refers to the minimal separation that allows one stimulus to be attended separately from nearby stimuli. The attentional walk task, which requires a series of covert shifts of attention within variably dense arrays of stimuli, was introduced as a method of measuring attentional resolution. Using a cuing task, we show that individual items within arrays that are too dense to support an attentional walk can nonetheless be attended. We note that the precision with which attention can be localized is, in principle, a limitation separate from attentional resolution and conclude that performance in the attentional walk task is better suited for measuring this limitation than for measuring attentional resolution per se.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Distinguishing between the precision of attentional localization and attentional resolution
- Creators
- Cathleen M Moore - Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA. cathleen-moore@uiowa.eduLyndsey K Lanagan-LeitzelElisabeth M Fine
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Perception & psychophysics, Vol.70(4), pp.573-582
- DOI
- 10.3758/PP.70.4.573
- PMID
- 18556920
- PMCID
- PMC6490958
- NLM abbreviation
- Percept Psychophys
- ISSN
- 0031-5117
- eISSN
- 1532-5962
- Publisher
- United States
- Grant note
- R01 MH067793 / NIMH NIH HHS MH067793 / NIMH NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 05/2008
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Injury Prevention Research Center
- Record Identifier
- 9984002328902771
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