Using inattentional blindness as an operational definition of unattended: The case of a response-end effect

Cathleen M Moore; Alejandro Lleras; Marc Grosjean; Mark T Marrara

doi:10.1080/13506280344000482

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Using inattentional blindness as an operational definition of unattended: The case of a response-end effect

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Using inattentional blindness as an operational definition of unattended: The case of a response-end effect

Cathleen M Moore, Alejandro Lleras, Marc Grosjean and Mark T Marrara

Visual cognition, Vol.11(6), pp.705-719

2004

DOI: 10.1080/13506280344000482

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Abstract

Inattentional blindness (IB), which is the lack of awareness of stimuli that appear in unattended regions of the visual field, can be used as an operational definition of unattended. Using separate online measures in combination with IB can be used to probe specific aspects of processing that are engaged by unattended stimuli. Previous applications of this method have provided evidence that unattended stimuli can engage processes that lead to grouping-by-similarity (Moore & Egeth, 1997), as well as processes involved in the perceptual completion of partially visible surfaces (Moore, Grosjean, & Lleras, 2003). Here we applied this method to address the question of whether unattended stimuli can engage response-end processes. Specifically, we used a stimulus-response compatibility effect, the Simon effect (e.g., Simon & Rudell, 1967), as an online measure of response selection. As assessed through this measure, unattended stimuli failed to engage response-selection processes. © 2004 Psychology Press Ltd.

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Title: Subtitle: Using inattentional blindness as an operational definition of unattended: The case of a response-end effect
Creators: Cathleen M Moore - Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, United States
Alejandro Lleras - Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, United States
Marc Grosjean - Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, United States
Mark T Marrara - Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, United States
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Visual cognition, Vol.11(6), pp.705-719
DOI: 10.1080/13506280344000482
ISSN: 1350-6285
eISSN: 1464-0716
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Language: English
Date published: 2004
Academic Unit: Psychological and Brain Sciences; Injury Prevention Research Center
Record Identifier: 9984213416002771

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