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Liu, Charles C.; Wolfgang, Bradley J.; Smith, Philip L. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2009
Recent spatial cuing studies have shown that detection sensitivity can be increased by the allocation of attention. This increase has been attributed to one of two mechanisms: signal enhancement or uncertainty reduction. Signal enhancement is an increase in the signal-to-noise ratio at the cued location; uncertainty reduction is a reduction in the…
Descriptors: Cues, Visual Perception, Experiments, College Students