Perceptual latency priming and illusory line motion: Facilitation by gradients of attention?

• Authors: Ingrid Scharlau , Gernot Horstmann

Abstracts

EN

The phenomena of illusory line motion and perceptual latency priming are both assumed to reflect a facilitation of perceptual latency. The explanation of illusory line motion presupposes that attention is distributed in a gradient fashion whereas this is not a necessary part of the explanation of perceptual latency priming. Two experiments test whether an attentional gradient is present in perceptual latency priming. Evidence for a gradient was found within 2.5° of visual angle around the attended location, but not at a distance of 5° and more.

Keywords

EN

Priming; attention; metacontrast; perceptual latency

• Publisher: Wyższa Szkoła Finansów i Zarządzania w Warszawie
• Journal: Advances in Cognitive Psychology
• Year: 2006
• Volume: 2
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 87-97

Contributors

author

Ingrid Scharlau

• Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

author

Gernot Horstmann

• Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10053-008-0047-7