Peripheral Spatial Cues and Spatial Stroop Effect Can Modulate Each Other: Analyzing the Relationship between Input Selection and Dimensional Selection

Abstract

The study was conducted to investigate the relationships between attentional input selection and dimensional selection by combining the peripheral cueing procedure developed by Posner with a variant of spatial Stroop task used by Funes et al (2007). The outcome showed that peripheral cueing and the spatial Stroop effect could modulate each other at short SOA but not long SOA. It is suggested that the processes that govern (a) input selection from the visual field and (b) dimensional selection from the stimulus might affect each other.