Detecting gaps with and without attention: Further evidence for attentional receptive fields

Lilach Shalev, Yehoshua Tsal

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Abstract

In four experiments participants were instructed to detect and localise a gap on a small vertical line. When the line was presented at the periphery, inattention produced a tendency to report broken lines as solid ones and also produced a substantial increase in coarse localisation errors. The results support the hypothesis (Tsal & Shalev, 1996) that the unattended visual field is composed of large attentional receptive fields (ARFs) within which there is no spatial resolution. A partial stimulation of such an ARF, by the broken line's inner ends producing the gap, signals the activation of the entire ARF resulting in the perceptual closure of the gap.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3-26
Number of pages24
JournalEuropean Journal of Cognitive Psychology
Volume14
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2002

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