PMID: 9183991Dec 1, 1995Paper

Neutral location cues and cost/benefit analysis of visual attention shifts

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology = Revue Canadienne De Psychologie Expérimentale
R D WrightJ J McDonald

Abstract

The effects of location cuing on target responses can be examined by comparing informative and neutral cuing conditions. In particular, the magnitudes of costs of invalid location cuing and of benefits of valid location cuing can be determined by comparing invalid and valid cue responses to location-nonspecific neutral cue responses. Cost/benefit analysis is based on the assumption that neutral baseline measures reflect a general warning effect about the impending target's onset but no other specific target information. The experiments we report were carried out to determine the appropriateness of two baseline measures for cost/benefit analyses of direct (nonsymbolic) location cuing effects. We found that a multiple-cue baseline attenuated the benefits of valid cuing, and that a background-flash baseline arbitrarily attenuated costs or benefits depending on flash intensity. It is proposed that a background flash is the more suitable neutral cue because it is target-location-nonspecific, but that its intensity should be adjusted to elicit a target-onset warning signal of the same magnitude as the location cues with which it will be compared.

Citations

Jun 19, 2010·Psychological Research·L L Righi, L E Ribeiro-do-Valle
May 9, 2012·Child Neuropsychology : a Journal on Normal and Abnormal Development in Childhood and Adolescence·Virginie Leclercq, Eric Siéroff
Oct 8, 2003·Perception & Psychophysics·Richard D Wright, Christian M Richard
Nov 26, 1999·Perception & Psychophysics·J J McDonaldK A Kiehl
Jun 6, 2020·Frontiers in Psychology·Orit Baruch, Liat Goldfarb

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