Does attention speed up processing? Decreases and increases of processing rates in visual prior entry

Attention and the Speed of Information Processing: Posterior Entry for Unattended Stimuli Instead of Prior Entry for Attended Stimuli

Why are nearly simultaneous stimuli frequently perceived in reversed order? The origin of errors in temporal judgments is a question older than experimental psychology itself. One of the earliest suspects is attention. According to the concept of prior entry, attention accelerates attended stimuli; thus they have "prior entry" to perceptive processing stages, including consciousness. Although l...

evaluation of visual information processing speed in depressed people.

depression disorders are associated with serious dysfunction and depressive symptoms. cognitive slowing is a clear symptom observed in all depressed people. pvsat is a measure of cognitive function that specifically assesses visual information processing speed and flexibility, as well as calculation ability. the aim of the present study was to determine whether the paced visual serial addition ...

Visual processing speed

Older adults commonly report difficulties in visual tasks of everyday living that involve visual clutter, secondary task demands, and time sensitive responses. These difficulties often cannot be attributed to visual sensory impairment. Techniques for measuring visual processing speed under divided attention conditions and among visual distractors have been developed and have established constru...

Speed in early visual processing

Visual processing speed: effects of auditory input on visual processing.

The ability to process simultaneously presented auditory and visual information is a necessary component underlying many cognitive tasks. While this ability is often taken for granted, there is evidence that under many conditions auditory input attenuates processing of corresponding visual input. The current study investigated infants' processing of visual input under unimodal and cross-modal c...