title: Successes and failures in producing attentional object-based cueing effects.
abstract: Over 30 years of research using Posner's spatial cueing paradigm has shown that selective attention operates on representations of spatial locations, leading to space-based theories of attention. Manipulations of stimuli and methods have shown this paradigm to be sensitive to several types of object-based representations-providing evidence for theories incorporating object-based attentional selection. This paper critically evaluates the evidence demanding object-based explanations that go beyond positing spatial representations alone, with an emphasis on identifying and interpreting successes and failures in obtaining object-based cueing effects. This overview of current evidence is used to generate hypotheses regarding critical factors in the emergence and influence of object representations-their generation, strength, and maintenance-in the modulation of object-based facilitatory and inhibitory cueing effects.
authors: Wales Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, Department of Psychology, Swansea University, Swansea, Wales, UK. i.reppa@swansea.ac.uk
authors: Irene
authors: I
authors: Reppa
authors: William C
authors: WC
authors: Schmidt
authors: E Charles
authors: EC
authors: Leek
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D003463:Cues; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D009039:Motion Perception; D009042:Motivation; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011930:Reaction Time; D055139:Sensory Gating; D013028:Space Perception