Allocation of Space-Based Attention is Guided by Efficient Comprehension of Spatial Direction.

ABSTRACT: Spatial navigation is supported by visual cues (e.g., scenes, schemas like arrows, and words) that must be comprehended quickly to facilitate effective transit. People comprehend spatial directions faster from schemas and words than scenes. We hypothesize that this occurs because schemas and words efficiently engage space-based attention, allowing for less costly computations. Here, participants completed a spatial cueing paradigm, and we calculated cue validity effects - how much faster participants responded to validly than invalidly cued locations - for each cue format. We pre-registered Experiment 1 and found significant cue validity effects with schemas and words, but not scenes, suggesting space-based attention was allocated more efficiently with schemas and words than scenes. In Exp

SUBMITTER: Barnas AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10785961 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature