TY - JOUR
T1 - Using inattentional blindness as an operational definition of unattended
T2 - The case of a response-end effect
AU - Moore, Cathleen M.
AU - Lleras, Alejandro
AU - Grosjean, Marc
AU - Marrara, Mark T.
N1 - Funding Information:
Please address all correspondence to Cathleen Moore, Department of Psychology, Penn State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. Email: cmm15@psu.edu Portions of this work were presented at the 2001 meeting of the Vision Sciences Society in Sarasota, FL. Support was provided by NSF grant SBR-9728628. Alejandro Lleras is now at the University of Britisch Columbia in Vancouver, Canada; Marc Grosjean is now at the Max Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich, Germany; and Mark Marrara is now at the Meta-vante Corporation in Milwaukee, WI. We wish to thank Marvin Chun and two anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on a previous version of this paper.
PY - 2004/8
Y1 - 2004/8
N2 - Inattentional blindness (IB), which is the lack of awareness of stimuli that appear in unattended regions of the visual field, can be used as an operational definition of unattended. Using separate online measures in combination with IB can be used to probe specific aspects of processing that are engaged by unattended stimuli. Previous applications of this method have provided evidence that unattended stimuli can engage processes that lead to grouping-by-similarity (Moore & Egeth, 1997), as well as processes involved in the perceptual completion of partially visible surfaces (Moore, Grosjean, & Lleras, 2003). Here we applied this method to address the question of whether unattended stimuli can engage response-end processes. Specifically, we used a stimulus-response compatibility effect, the Simon effect (e.g., Simon & Rudell, 1967), as an online measure of response selection. As assessed through this measure, unattended stimuli failed to engage response-selection processes.
AB - Inattentional blindness (IB), which is the lack of awareness of stimuli that appear in unattended regions of the visual field, can be used as an operational definition of unattended. Using separate online measures in combination with IB can be used to probe specific aspects of processing that are engaged by unattended stimuli. Previous applications of this method have provided evidence that unattended stimuli can engage processes that lead to grouping-by-similarity (Moore & Egeth, 1997), as well as processes involved in the perceptual completion of partially visible surfaces (Moore, Grosjean, & Lleras, 2003). Here we applied this method to address the question of whether unattended stimuli can engage response-end processes. Specifically, we used a stimulus-response compatibility effect, the Simon effect (e.g., Simon & Rudell, 1967), as an online measure of response selection. As assessed through this measure, unattended stimuli failed to engage response-selection processes.
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U2 - 10.1080/13506280344000482
DO - 10.1080/13506280344000482
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:4444249069
SN - 1350-6285
VL - 11
SP - 705
EP - 719
JO - Visual Cognition
JF - Visual Cognition
IS - 6
ER -