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Makovski, Tal; Jiang, Yuhong V. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
When tracking moving objects in space humans usually attend to the objects' spatial locations and update this information over time. To what extent do surface features assist attentive tracking? In this study we asked participants to track identical or uniquely colored objects. Tracking was enhanced when objects were unique in color. The benefit…
Descriptors: College Students, Short Term Memory, Eye Movements, Visual Perception
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Tsal, Yehoshua; Makovski, Tal – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2006
The authors devised a prestimulus-probe method to assess the allocation of attention as a function of participants' top-down expectancies concerning distractor and target locations. Participants performed the flanker task, and distractor locations remained fixed. On some trials, instead of the flanker display, either 2 simultaneous dots or a…
Descriptors: Attention, Visual Perception, Visual Stimuli, Performance