Department of Psychology, University of Montreal, Pavillon Marie-Victorin, 90 Avenue Vincent d'Indy, Montreal, Quebec, H2V 2S9, Canada,
Psychon Bull Rev. 2013 Dec;20(6):1213-20. doi: 10.3758/s13423-013-0455-7.
It is thought that attention is allocated to figural items over adjacent ground stimuli. It is unclear which attribute of figures drives any previously observed attentional effects (e.g., nearness or shapedness). Moreover, it is unclear whether previous attentional effects are automatic or strategy driven. In the present series of experiments, we tested whether attention is allocated to the nearer of two surfaces under condition where near/far was not confounded with shaped/shapelessness. Using a temporal order judgment paradigm, in the first experiment, we showed that attention is allocated to the nearer of two surfaces. Furthermore, by using the stimuli themselves as the temporal order probe in Experiment 2, we found that this effect is independent of previous attentional allocation across the visual field. A third experiment ruled out the possibility that lateral inhibition by the pretarget backdrop was responsible for attentional bias toward near surfaces. Overall, our results converge to show that near surfaces attract attention.
人们认为，注意力会分配给图形项而不是相邻的地面刺激。目前尚不清楚是什么属性的图形驱动了之前观察到的任何注意力效应（例如，接近度或形状）。此外，目前尚不清楚以前的注意力效应是自动的还是策略驱动的。在本系列实验中，我们测试了在接近/远距不与有形/无形混淆的情况下，注意力是否会分配给两个表面中的较近者。使用时间顺序判断范式，在第一个实验中，我们表明注意力会分配给两个表面中的较近者。此外，在实验 2 中，我们使用刺激本身作为时间顺序探针，发现该效应独立于整个视野内先前的注意力分配。第三个实验排除了前目标背景的横向抑制负责对近表面产生注意力偏向的可能性。总体而言，我们的结果表明，近表面会吸引注意力。
