The effect of spatial attention on invisible stimuli

Kilho Shin; Moritz Stolte; Sang Chul Chong

doi:10.3758/APP.71.7.1507

The effect of spatial attention on invisible stimuli

Kilho Shin, Moritz Stolte, Sang Chul Chong

Department of Psychology

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Abstract

The influence of selective attention on visual processing is widespread. Recent studies have demonstrated that spatial attention can affect processing of invisible stimuli. However, it has been suggested that this effect is limited to low-level features, such as line orientations. The present experiments investigated whether spatial attention can influence both low-level (contrast threshold) and high-level (gender discrimination) adaptation, using the same method of attentional modulation for both types of stimuli. We found that spatial attention was able to increase the amount of adaptation to low- as well as to high-level invisible stimuli. These results suggest that attention can influence perceptual processes independent of visual awareness.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1507-1513
Number of pages	7
Journal	Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics
Volume	71
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3758/APP.71.7.1507
Publication status	Published - 2009

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Funding Information:
This work was supported by the Korea Science and Engineering Foundation (KOSEF) Grant R01-2008-000-10820-0 funded by the Korean government (MEST).This first two auththors contributed equally to this work.

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