title: Peripheral cuing by abrupt-onset cues: the influence of color in S-R corresponding conditions.
abstract: Research on visuospatial attention indicates that a peripheral abrupt-onset cue at target position (valid condition) facilitates processing of the target, whereas a cue at another position interferes. This validity effect seems to be contingent on a similarity of the cue's color to the set of target colors (cf. J. Exp. Psychol.: Human Percep. Perform. 18 (1992) 1030). In Experiments 1-3, we confirm this contingency with cues that have the potential to activate responses. Thus, attentional capture and response capture are apparently governed by the same principle. In Experiment 2, it is demonstrated that color priming is not responsible for the contingency. In Experiment 3, it is shown that a more efficient reallocation of attention after color-dissimilar cues than after color-similar cues might contribute to the contingency.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University, P.O. Box 10 01 31, D-33501 Bielefeld, Germany. ulrich.ansorge@uni-bielefeld.de
authors.forename: Ulrich
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Ansorge
authors.forename: Manfred
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Heumann
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D003118:Color Perception; D003214:Conditioning, Classical; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception