Research article summary (published 28 Feb 1992):

Is rapid performance improvement across short precue-target delays due to masking from peripheral precues?

Full Abstract

The role of lateral masking in more rapid performance improvement with peripheral than with central precuing was investigated. A peripheral precue to the inside of the target location provided less masking at zero precue-target delay than a precue to the outside (experiment 1) or a precue involving a partial target at the target location (experiment 2). There was no significant interaction between precue-target delay and precue type in a comparison of inside precues and precues involving a briefly-brightened box around the target location, although overall performance was significantly poorer with the latter (experiment 3). Performance was better at short precue-target delays with inside precues than with central precues (experiment 4), yet it did not improve significantly more rapidly. Minimizing lateral masking with peripheral precues thus eliminates the dramatic performance improvement sometimes observed across short precue-target delays, causing performance to be consistently better than with central precues across these delays.

Author information

Author/s: Chastain, G (G);

Affiliation: Dept. of Psychology, Boise State University, ID 83725.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Journal Article

Journal: Acta psychologica (Acta Psychol (Amst)), published in NETHERLANDS. (Language: eng)

Reference: 1992-Mar; vol 79 (issue 2) : pp 101-14

Dates: Created 1992/07/08; Completed 1992/07/08; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 1598841, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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Adult Attention Cues Female Humans Male

Orientation Pattern Recognition, Visual Perceptual Masking Psychophysics Reaction Time Visual Fields

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