Top-down contingent feature-specific orienting with and without awareness of the visual input

• Authors: Ulrich Ansorge , Gernot Horstmann , Ingrid Scharlau

Abstracts

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In the present article, the role of endogenous feature-specific orienting for conscious and unconscious vision is reviewed. We start with an overview of orienting. We proceed with a review of masking research, and the definition of the criteria of experimental protocols that demonstrate endogenous and exogenous orienting, respectively. Against this background of criteria, we assess studies of unconscious orienting and come to the conclusion that so far studies of unconscious orienting demonstrated endogenous feature-specific orienting. The review closes with a discussion of the role of unconscious orienting in action control.

Keywords

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vision; masking; attention; top-down contingent capture

• Publisher: Wyższa Szkoła Finansów i Zarządzania w Warszawie
• Journal: Advances in Cognitive Psychology
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 7
• Pages: 108-119

Contributors

author

Ulrich Ansorge

author

Gernot Horstmann

• Department of Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Germany

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Ingrid Scharlau

• Faculty of Cultural Sciences, University of Paderborn, Germany

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10.2478/v10053-008-0087-z