title: Attentional orienting and awareness: evidence from a discrimination task.
abstract: We used several cue-target SOAs (100, 500, 1000 ms) and three different degrees of cue predictability (Non-predictive-50%, Predictive-75%, Counter-predictive-25%), to investigate the role of awareness of cue-target predictability on cueing effects. A group of participants received instructions about the informative value of the cue, while another group did not receive such instructions. Participants were able to extract the predictive value of a spatially peripheral cue and use it to orient attention, whether or not specific instructions about the predictive value of the cue were given, and no matter their ability to correctly report it in a post-test questionnaire. In the non-predictive block, bad estimators who received no instructions showed regular cueing effects, while good estimators exhibited smaller and non-significant facilitatory effects at the short SOA and an absence of significant IOR at longer SOAs. However, for the instructions group, the pattern of results reversed.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Psicología Experimental y Fisiología del Comportamiento, University of Granada, Granada, Spain. mflopez@ugr.es
authors.forename: María Fernanda
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: López-Ramón
authors.forename: Ana B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Chica
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bartolomeo
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lupiáñez
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D001364:Awareness; D003463:Cues; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D009949:Orientation; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011930:Reaction Time; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult