title: Endogenous temporal orienting of attention in detection and discrimination tasks.
abstract: Endogenous temporal-orienting effects were studied using a cuing paradigm in which the cue indicated the time interval during which the target was most likely to appear. Temporal-orienting effects were defined by lower reaction times (RTs) when there was a match between the temporal expectancy for a target (early or late) and the time interval during which the target actually appeared than when they mismatched. Temporal-orienting effects were found for both early and late expectancies with a detection task in Experiment 1. However, catch trials were decisive in whether temporal-orienting effects were observed in the early-expectancy condition. No temporal-orienting effects were found in the discrimination task. In Experiments 2A and 2B, temporal-orienting effects were observed in the discrimination task; however, they were larger when temporal expectancy was manipulated between blocks, rather than within blocks.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Psicología Experimental y Fisiología del Comportamiento, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Granada, Granada, Spain. act@ugr.es
authors.forename: Angel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Correa
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lupiáñez
authors.forename: Bruce
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Milliken
authors.forename: Pío
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Tudela
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D003463:Cues; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D011930:Reaction Time; D013998:Time Perception; D014796:Visual Perception