Attentional cartography: mapping the distribution of attention across time and space

摘要: Decades of research have shown that the orienting attention follows a reliable pattern facilitation and then inhibition following peripheral cue. However, literature lacks high-resolution spatiotemporal map this pattern. Moreover, use visual placeholders to highlight potential stimulus locations is inconsistent. This puzzling, given attention’s well-known predilection for objects. In article, we remedy these outstanding issues with large-scale investigation charting distribution attention. Participants detected targets presented at 121 possible 100, 200, 400, or 800 ms an uninformative The cued were without placeholders. With placeholders, classic early late was observed appearing within spread severely limited Without shortly after cue presentation, upsetting famously effect from location, unlike when present. has produced eminently detailed attentional illustrated consequences placeholder stimuli, surprising results.