This study used peripheral precueing to explore the effect of covert transient attention on performance in spatial resolution tasks. Experiments 1 (Landolt-square) and 2 ('broken-line') measured gap resolution and Experiment 3 measured vernier resolution. In all three tasks the target was presented alone in a large number of possible locations, ranging from 1.5-6 degrees of eccentricity in the ...

In the present fMRI study, we aimed to assess whether spatial encoding is mediated by spatial attention. During encoding, participants were presented with abstract shapes to the left or right of fixation. During retrieval, old and new shapes were presented at fixation and participants classified each shape as "old-left", "old-right", or "new". Subsequently remembered items were assumed to have ...

Seven experiments examined the role of spatial attention in apprehending spatial relations above, below, left, and right. In Experiment 1, visual search was difficult when targets differed from distractors only in the spatial relation between their elements. Reaction time increased linearly with display size with a slope greater than 60 ms/item. In Experiment 2, search was easy (the slope was f...

Purpose Metaverse, that is extended reality (XR)-based technologies such as augmented (AR) and virtual (VR), are increasingly believed to facilitate fundamental human practice in the future. One of vanguards this development has been consumption domain, where multi-modal multi-sensory technology-mediated immersion expected enrich consumers' experience. However, it remains unclear whether these ...

Children’s spatial language abilities relate to their spatial skills. We propose that this relation arises from attention to spatial dimensions influencing both spatial word and spatial skill acquisition. This study tests whether attending to spatial dimensions in a word learning task predicts spatial vocabulary. Three to 5-year-olds completed a novel word assessment testing categorization of a...

When attention is directed to stimuli in a given modality and location, information processing in other irrelevant modalities at this location is affected too. This spread of attention to irrelevant stimuli is often interpreted as superiority of location selection over modality selection. However, this conclusion is based on experimental paradigms in which spatial attention was transient wherea...