Abstract
OPINION article Front. Psychol., 11 July 2012Sec. Cognition Volume 3 - 2012 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00236
Highlights
Attention helps regulate what to attend to and what to filter out
A major question was whether the source of faster execution of response could be attributed only to motor preparation, or was there a change in early perceptual and response selection processing stages? Event-related potential (ERP) studies have demonstrated that both alerting and voluntary temporal orienting modulate similar components that are related to early processing stages such as perceptual and response selection, rather than just late motor preparation
Conclusion and practical suggestions We suggest a distinction between temporal orienting, in which temporal information is inherent in the cues, and arousal, which does not depend on temporal contingencies
Summary
Attention helps regulate what to attend to and what to filter out. A warning cue prior to an event can be used to direct attention and improve performance when response to an imperative target is required. The current literature presents similar effects for these two functions; effects of a warning cue are sometimes attributed to changes in the state of alertness and in other cases, to voluntary orienting of attention in time. Many studies on voluntary temporal orienting present symbolic warning cues prior to a target that predict, with high probability, the specific time of target onset.
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