Abstract Observers aged 6, 8, and 20 years participated in a speeded classification task
designed to measure covert shifts of visual attention. On each trial observers responded to a …

Research studying visual selective attention has largely examined filtering tasks in which
stationary targets are selected from stationary distractors by a physical cue such as location …

In two experiments, no evidence for perception without awareness was found in a Stroop-
priming task when the threshold for detecting color-word primes was measured reliably by a …

The early years of modern experimental psychology were marked by a considerable amount
of research on attention, and much work was carried out in the laboratories of Wundt …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the model of processing along with its
characteristics:(1) perceptual processing may proceed on several independent channels …

Conscious perception is substantially overestimated when standard measurement
techniques are used. That overestimation has contributed to the controversial nature of …

Two studies using 136 undergraduates examined the effect of the sensory discriminability of
targets from nontargets on depth of nontarget processing. Ss shadowed target words that …

The authors have shown that an object appearing abruptly in a previously blank location is
efficiently detected in visual search when it is embedded in an array of objects without …

We used a concurrent-task paradigm to investigate the attentional cost of simple visual
tasks. As in earlier studies, we found that detecting a unique orientation in an array of …

This study examined the processing of ignored pictures and words when attention was
directed to a different picture or word. Previous work by Tipper (1985) demonstrated that the …