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Article Dans Une Revue Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics Année : 2023

Constraints on integration of orthographic information across multiple stimuli: effects of contiguity, eccentricity, and attentional span

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Five flanked lexical decision experiments investigated the integration of information across spatially distinct letter strings. Experiment 1 found no significant difference between quadrigram flankers (e.g., CKRO ROCK CKRO) and double bigram flankers (e.g., CK RO ROCK CK RO). Experiment 2 varied the eccentricity of single bigram flankers and found that closer flankers generated greater effects. A combined analysis of these experiments revealed that the double bigram condition (Experiment 1) was less effective than the close single bigram condition (Experiment 2). Experiment 3 tested one explanation for this pattern-that the outer bigrams in the double bigram condition interfered with processing the inner bigrams, and that spatial integration only operates across adjacent stimuli. In Experiment 3, outer bigrams were now a repeat of the inner bigram (e.g., RO RO ROCK CK CK), and this repeated bigram condition was still found to be significantly less effective than single bigrams. Experiments 4 and 5 tested an alternative explanation whereby the addition of spatially distinct flanking stimuli increases the spread of spatial attention, hence reducing the impact of proximal flankers. In line with this explanation, we found no significant difference between repeated bigram flankers and a condition where only the inner bigram was related to the target (e.g., CA RO ROCK CK SH). We conclude that spatial integration processes only operate across the central target and proximal flankers, and that these effects are diluted by the increased spread of spatial attention caused by additional spatially distinct flankers.
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hal-04414767 , version 1 (30-01-2024)

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Colas Fournet, Christophe Sylvain Cauchi, Manuel Perea, Jonathan Grainger. Constraints on integration of orthographic information across multiple stimuli: effects of contiguity, eccentricity, and attentional span. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 2023, 85 (6), pp.2065 - 2082. ⟨10.3758/s13414-023-02758-6⟩. ⟨hal-04414767⟩
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