German Sport University Cologne, Institute of Cognitive and Team/Racket Sport Research, Am Sportpark Müngersdorf 6, 50933 Köln, Germany.
Conscious Cogn. 2010 Dec;19(4):1097-101. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2010.01.001. Epub 2010 Feb 1.
Kuhn and colleagues described a novel attentional misdirection approach (deliberate diversion of attention away from a visually salient stimulus) to investigate overt and covert attention mechanisms in connection with inattentional blindness (not being able to perceive something that is plainly visible because one's attention has not been focused on it). This misdirection paradigm is valuable to study the temporal relationship between eye movements and visual awareness. Although, as put forth in this comment, the link between attentional misdirection and inattentional blindness needs to be developed further. There are at least four differences between the two paradigms which concern the conceptual aspects of the unexpected object and the methodological aspects of the task design. This highlights the need for a broader theoretical framework incorporating inattentional blindness and overt and covert attention mechanisms. Two possible research lines focusing on the orienting attention research and the "selection-for-action" paradigm are discussed.
库恩（Kuhn）及其同事描述了一种新颖的注意力误导方法（故意将注意力从视觉上明显的刺激上转移开），以研究与非注意盲（由于注意力未集中在某个事物上，而无法感知到明显可见的事物）相关的显性和隐性注意机制。这种误导范式对于研究眼动与视觉意识之间的时间关系非常有价值。尽管如此，正如本评论中所指出的，注意力误导与非注意盲之间的联系需要进一步发展。这两个范式之间至少存在四个差异，涉及意外物体的概念方面和任务设计的方法学方面。这凸显了需要一个更广泛的理论框架，将非注意盲和显性和隐性注意机制纳入其中。讨论了两个可能的研究方向，即定向注意力研究和“选择行动”范式。
