Dividing attention in the flash-lag illusion

Sarich, Dragica; Chappell, Mark; Burgess, Carly

doi:10.1016/j.visres.2006.09.029

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“…Scocchia et al (2006) demonstrated decreased the flash-lag effect. Active control of the target would require more attention, and so effects of control are consistent with proposals that attention modulates the flash-lag effect (e.g.. Baldo, Kihara, et al, 2002;Sarich et al, 2007;Shioiri et al, 2010). Overall, participant control of the moving target or flashed object can influence the flash-lag effect, but the type of control determines whether the flash-lag effect is increased or decreased.…”

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“…Thus, the flashed object would take even longer to enter perceptual awareness, resulting in a larger flash-lag effect. Such a notion is consistent with flndings of a larger flash-lag effect if participants engaged in a concurrent task (e.g., Sadch, Chappell, & Burgess, 2007;Scocchia, Actis-Grosso, de'Sperati, Stucchi, & Baud-Bovy, 2009 & Kammer, 1999). They presented a target that moved in a single direction or reversed direction, and a flashed object was presented at motion onset, offset, or reversal.…”

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The flash-lag effect and related mislocalizations: Findings, properties, and theories.

Hubbard

2014

Psychological Bulletin

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If an observer sees a flashed (briefly presented) object that is aligned with a moving target, the perceived position of the flashed object usually lags the perceived position of the moving target. This has been referred to as the flash-lag effect, and the flash-lag effect has been suggested to reflect how an observer compensates for delays in perception that are due to neural processing times and is thus able to interact with dynamic stimuli in real time. Characteristics of the stimulus and of the observer that influence the flash-lag effect are reviewed, and the sensitivity or robustness of the flash-lag effect to numerous variables is discussed. Properties of the flash-lag effect and how the flash-lag effect might be related to several other perceptual and cognitive processes and phenomena are considered. Unresolved empirical issues are noted. Theories of the flash-lag effect are reviewed, and evidence inconsistent with each theory is noted. The flash-lag effect appears to involve low-level perceptual processes and high-level cognitive processes, reflects the operation of multiple mechanisms, occurs in numerous stimulus dimensions, and occurs within and across multiple modalities. It is suggested that the flash-lag effect derives from more basic mislocalizations of the moving target or flashed object and that understanding and analysis of the flash-lag effect should focus on these more basic mislocalizations rather than on the relationship between the moving target and the flashed object.

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Section: Characteristics Of the Observersupporting

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Section: Characteristics Of the Observersupporting

confidence: 72%

The flash-lag effect and related mislocalizations: Findings, properties, and theories.

Hubbard

2014

Psychological Bulletin

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“…The onset repulsion effect in memory for the initial location of a target was decreased or eliminated if a spatial 4 Several studies showed a reduction in another type of spatial bias, the flash-lag effect (i.e., a briefly presented stationary object aligned with a moving object appears to be [i.e., appears to lag] behind the moving object; Nijhawan, 2002), when more attention is allocated to the location of the flash (e.g., Baldo, Kihara, Namba, & Klein, 2002;Namba & Baldo, 2004;Sarich, Chappell, & Burgess, 2007;Shiori, Yamamoto, Oshida, Matsubara, & Yaguchi, 2010; but see Khurana, Watanabe, & Nijhawan, 2000). However, the flash-lag effect involves additional elements (e.g., judgment of the relative positions of two stimuli, rather than judgment of the absolute position of one stimulus), and so any relationship between attention in the onset repulsion effect and attention in the flash-lag effect is more speculative.…”

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Effects of spatial cuing on the onset repulsion effect

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2011

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Effects of cuing the onset (initial) location of a moving target on memory for the onset location of that target were examined. If a cue presented prior to target onset indicated the location where that target would appear, the onset repulsion effect (in which the judged initial location of the target was displaced in the direction opposite to target motion) was decreased, and the onset repulsion effect was smaller if the cue was valid than if the cue was invalid. If a cue presented during target motion or after the target vanished indicated the location where that target had appeared, the onset repulsion effect was eliminated. The data (1) suggest that positional uncertainty might contribute to the onset repulsion effect, (2) provide the first evidence of an effect of expectancy regarding target trajectory on the onset repulsion effect, and (3) are partially consistent with previous data involving effects of attention and spatial cuing on the Fröhlich effect and on representational momentum.

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“…The FLE (Sarich et al, 2007) and RM (Hayes and Freyd, 2002) increase if attention is divided between the moving target and a concurrent irrelevant stimulus. If the position of the flashed object or moving target is cued, valid cues result in a smaller FLE (Brenner and Smeets, 2000; Namba and Baldo, 2004; Shioiri et al, 2010; but see Khurana et al, 2000) and smaller RM (Hubbard et al, 2009) than do invalid cues.…”

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Do the flash-lag effect and representational momentum involve similar extrapolations?

Hubbard¹

2013

Front. Psychol.

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In the flash-lag effect (FLE) and in representational momentum (RM), the represented position of a moving target is displaced in the direction of motion. Effects of numerous variables on the FLE and on RM are briefly considered. In many cases, variables appear to have the same effect on the FLE and on RM, and this is consistent with a hypothesis that displacements in the FLE and in RM result from overlapping or similar mechanisms. In other cases, variables initially appear to have different effects on the FLE and on RM, but accounts reconciling those apparent differences with a hypothesis of overlapping or similar mechanisms are suggested. Given that RM is simpler and accounts for a wider range of findings (i.e., RM involves a single stimulus rather than the relationship between two stimuli, RM accounts for displacement in absolute position of a single stimulus and for differences in relative position of two stimuli), it is suggested that (at least some cases of) the FLE might be a special case of RM in which the position of the target is assessed relative to the position of another stimulus (i.e., the flashed object) rather than relative to the actual position of the target.

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Dividing attention in the flash-lag illusion

Cited by 28 publications

References 22 publications

The flash-lag effect and related mislocalizations: Findings, properties, and theories.

The flash-lag effect and related mislocalizations: Findings, properties, and theories.

Effects of spatial cuing on the onset repulsion effect

Do the flash-lag effect and representational momentum involve similar extrapolations?

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