The suppression of reflexive visual and auditory orienting when attention is otherwise engaged.

Two experiments were conducted to examine whether abrupt onsets are capable of reflexively capturing attention when they occur outside the current focus of spatial attention, as would be expected if exogenous orienting operates in a truly automatic fashion. The authors established a highly focused a...

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Main Authors: Santangelo, V, Olivetti Belardinelli, M, Spence, C
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2007