Journal article
Role of perceptual organization while attending in depth
Perception & psychophysics, Vol.62(4), pp.786-799
01/2000
DOI: 10.3758/BF03206923
PMID: 10883585
Abstract
Seven experiments were conducted in order to explore the conditions under which visual attention can be allocated in depth. In each experiment, observers were cued to the most likely target location in stereoscopic depth displays, and targets could appear in either the cued location or in another location. In Experiments 1 and 2, we show that previous failures to observe effects of cuing in depth may have depended on the specific timing characteristics of the displays. In Experiments 3, 4, and 5, we eliminated the hypothesis, suggested by Experiments 1 and 2, that in order to allocate attention in depth, attention must be allocated to a specific object token. Experiment 6 provides evidence that, in the absence of other organizing information (e.g., color), attention can be allocated in depth on the basis of the surface information available in the display. Finally, in Experiment 7, we demonstrate that, although sufficient, surface information is not necessary for the allocation of attention; color supported the allocation of attention across multiple items that failed to fall on a single coherent surface in depth. Together, these findings suggest that attention in depth, like attention in two-dimensional displays, is determined by the perceptual organization of the display.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Role of perceptual organization while attending in depth
- Creators
- Mark Marrara - Pennsylvania State University 429 Moore Building 16802 University Park PACathleen Moore - Pennsylvania State University 429 Moore Building 16802 University Park PA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Perception & psychophysics, Vol.62(4), pp.786-799
- DOI
- 10.3758/BF03206923
- PMID
- 10883585
- NLM abbreviation
- Percept Psychophys
- ISSN
- 0031-5117
- eISSN
- 1532-5962
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag; New York
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/2000
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Injury Prevention Research Center
- Record Identifier
- 9984002463202771
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