The applicability of a cueing paradigm to study individual differences in the spotlight of attention.

ABSTRACT: Our spotlight of attention allows selecting and filtering relevant information from the world around us, and thereby influences how we perceive the world. However, it remains poorly understood whether there are, next to state influences, also stable differences in the sharpness of the spotlight between individuals: trait differences. Therefore, our aim was to investigate the validity of a cueing paradigm to assess group and individual differences. In an online experiment, we presented a cue to covertly direct attention to one side of the screen. This was followed by a target (gapped circle) appearing at varying distances from the cue, in either the valid or the invalid hemifield. The accuracy of reporting the gap direction was used to map the size of the attentional spotlight. First, resul

SUBMITTER: de Zwart B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12568912 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature