Abstract
The effect of covert attention in perifoveal and peripheral locations has been studied extensively. However, it is less clear whether attention operates similarly in the foveal area itself. The present study aims to investigate whether the attentional orienting elicited by an exogenous or endogenous cue can operate within the foveal area and whether attentional orienting operates similarly between foveal and perifoveal regions. By manipulating exogenous orienting in Experiment 1 and endogenous orienting in Experiment 2, we observed both forms of cueing in the foveal area. Specifically, we observed a larger exogenous cue-induced inhibitory effect (i.e., inhibition of return effect) and a similar endogenous cue-elicited facilitatory effect for the perifoveal relative to the foveal targets. We conclude that exogenous and endogenous orienting subject to two independent attentional systems with distinct modulation patterns in the foveal area.
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We thank the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Projects 31371018, 91120004, and J1103602) and the China Scholarship Council (No. [2014]3026) for financial support of this work.
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Yang, T., Zhang, J. & Bao, Y. Spatial orienting around the fovea: exogenous and endogenous cueing effects. Cogn Process 16 (Suppl 1), 137–141 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10339-015-0688-7
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