Journal article
Influence of terminal action requirements on action-centered distractor effects
Abstract
Tipper (1985; Q J Exp Psychol A 37:571–590) has suggested that competing responses programmed to distracting stimuli are inhibited based on their relationship to the action being performed. The present paper reports two experiments designed to examine the influence of the terminal action of a task on the allocation of visual attention. Taken together the results suggest that when engaging targets in an environment, which includes distracting …
Authors
Weir PL; Weeks DJ; Welsh TN; Elliott D; Chua R; Roy EA; Lyons J
Journal
Experimental Brain Research, Vol. 149, No. 2, pp. 207–213
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
March 2003
DOI
10.1007/s00221-002-1358-4
ISSN
0014-4819