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_id: '6066'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Selective visual attention improves performance in many tasks. Among others,
    it leads to 'prior entry'—earlier perception of an attended compared to an unattended
    stimulus. Whether this phenomenon is purely based on an increase of the processing
    rate of the attended stimulus or if a decrease in the processing rate of the unattended
    stimulus also contributes to the effect is, up to now, unanswered. Here we describe
    a novel approach to this question based on Bundesen’s Theory of Visual Attention,
    which we use to overcome the limitations of earlier prior-entry assessment with
    temporal order judgments (TOJs) that only allow relative statements regarding
    the processing speed of attended and unattended stimuli. Prevalent models of prior
    entry in TOJs either indirectly predict a pure acceleration or cannot model the
    difference between acceleration and deceleration. In a paradigm that combines
    a letter-identification task with TOJs, we show that indeed acceleration of the
    attended and deceler
author:
- first_name: Jan
  full_name: Tünnermann, Jan
  last_name: Tünnermann
- first_name: Anders
  full_name: Petersen, Anders
  last_name: Petersen
- first_name: Ingrid
  full_name: Scharlau, Ingrid
  id: '451'
  last_name: Scharlau
  orcid: 0000-0003-2364-9489
citation:
  ama: Tünnermann J, Petersen A, Scharlau I. Does attention speed up processing? Decreases
    and increases of processing rates in visual prior entry. <i>Journal of Vision</i>.
    2015;15(3). doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1167/15.3.1">10.1167/15.3.1</a>
  apa: Tünnermann, J., Petersen, A., &#38; Scharlau, I. (2015). Does attention speed
    up processing? Decreases and increases of processing rates in visual prior entry.
    <i>Journal of Vision</i>, <i>15</i>(3). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1167/15.3.1">https://doi.org/10.1167/15.3.1</a>
  bibtex: '@article{Tünnermann_Petersen_Scharlau_2015, title={Does attention speed
    up processing? Decreases and increases of processing rates in visual prior entry.},
    volume={15}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.1167/15.3.1">10.1167/15.3.1</a>},
    number={3}, journal={Journal of Vision}, author={Tünnermann, Jan and Petersen,
    Anders and Scharlau, Ingrid}, year={2015} }'
  chicago: Tünnermann, Jan, Anders Petersen, and Ingrid Scharlau. “Does Attention
    Speed up Processing? Decreases and Increases of Processing Rates in Visual Prior
    Entry.” <i>Journal of Vision</i> 15, no. 3 (2015). <a href="https://doi.org/10.1167/15.3.1">https://doi.org/10.1167/15.3.1</a>.
  ieee: 'J. Tünnermann, A. Petersen, and I. Scharlau, “Does attention speed up processing?
    Decreases and increases of processing rates in visual prior entry.,” <i>Journal
    of Vision</i>, vol. 15, no. 3, 2015, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.1167/15.3.1">10.1167/15.3.1</a>.'
  mla: Tünnermann, Jan, et al. “Does Attention Speed up Processing? Decreases and
    Increases of Processing Rates in Visual Prior Entry.” <i>Journal of Vision</i>,
    vol. 15, no. 3, 2015, doi:<a href="https://doi.org/10.1167/15.3.1">10.1167/15.3.1</a>.
  short: J. Tünnermann, A. Petersen, I. Scharlau, Journal of Vision 15 (2015).
date_created: 2018-12-10T07:01:56Z
date_updated: 2022-06-06T16:31:07Z
department:
- _id: '424'
doi: 10.1167/15.3.1
intvolume: '        15'
issue: '3'
keyword:
- unattended stimuli
- attention speed
- cognitive processing
- Attention
- Humans
- Judgment
- Mental Recall
- Visual Perception
- Stimulus Parameters
- Visual Perception
- Visual Attention
- Cognitive Processes
- Velocity
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2213282
oa: '1'
publication: Journal of Vision
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 1534-7362
publication_status: published
status: public
title: Does attention speed up processing? Decreases and increases of processing rates
  in visual prior entry.
type: journal_article
user_id: '42165'
volume: 15
year: '2015'
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