Exogenous vs. endogenous spatial orienting
Juan Lupiañez
University of Granada
Objectives
First considered as two ways of orienting the same attentional mechanisms or attentional “spotlight”, exogenous and endogenous spatial orienting are now considered as two different mechanisms, which can be perfectly dissociated in different ways. I will discuss two different approaches to dissociate exogenous and endogenous attention, a) by crossing in a factorial design variables triggering independently effects of exogenous and endogenous attentional orienting, and b) by showing that exogenous and endogenous attention do modulate attention in different ways. Different examples of paradigms suitable to investigate the independence and interdependence of exogenous and endogenous attention will be discussed.
Content
- Attentional capture
- Exogenous orienting
- Endogenous orienting
- Inhibition of Return
- Attentional modulation of Spatial Stroop
Target audience
Psychologists or any researcher from other disciplines interested on the study and research spatial attention.