Understanding conceptual cueing

为了让人类成功地与我们复杂的视觉环境进行交互，我们必须优先考虑视觉信息，以便进行后续的感知和认知处理。选择性地注意视野的部分的能力对于这种优先化是至关重要的，最近的研究表明，注意力定向可以通过暴露于具有隐含空间意义的概念线索来实现。这样的线索（例如，devil '，hat'，joy '）激活内部空间表征，并且暴露于它们产生对空间相容位置处的外围目标的更快反应。例如，我实验室的工作显示，在空间兼容的位置，对各种概念线索有促进作用，包括具有隐含方向的单词（boots '; Gozli，Pratt，Martin，god”; Chasteen，Burdzy，Gozli，Chasteen，Taylor，Lam，Chasteen），我们通过各种上下文遇到它们，无论是通过音乐或与他人对话的听觉线索，还是通过媒体的视觉线索。因此，概念线索可以以多种方式触发，然后影响我们在视觉环境中的注意和反应。在拟议的研究中，我的目标是通过严格测试两个命题，在理解概念线索和视觉注意之间的联系取得重大进展。 第一个命题是，概念线索激活的内部空间表征导致视觉注意指向视野中相应的空间区域，这种独特的注意转移具有外源性注意（自动发生）和内源性注意（内部驱动）的性质。我将在三个研究子程序中检验这个假设。 我将要检验的第二个命题是，由概念线索激活的内部空间表征是灵活的，随时间（短期）和个人（长期）而变化。 我将在两个研究子程序中检验这个命题。 测试这两个命题将导致对概念信息的处理（这发生在我们的日常经验中）如何影响来自视野的信息被选择用于进一步处理的更完整的理解。 了解这一点很重要，因为我们选择处理的视觉信息是我们当前和未来行为的重要决定因素。

In order for humans to successfully interact with our complex visual environments, we must prioritize visual information for subsequent perceptual and cognitive processing. The ability to selectively attend to portions of the visual field is vital for this prioritization, and recent research has shown that attentional orienting may be accomplished through exposure to conceptual cues that hold implicit spatial meaning. Such cues (e.g., devil', hat', joy') activate internal spatial representations and exposure to them produces faster responses to peripheral targets at spatially-compatible locations. For example, work from my laboratory has shown facilitation effects at spatially compatible locations for a variety of conceptual cues, including words with implicit direction (boots'; Gozli, Pratt, Martin, god”; Chasteen, Burdzy, Gozli, Chasteen, Taylor, Lam, Chasteen, we encounter them through a variety of contexts, whether through aural cues from music or conversation with others, or visual cues through media. Thus, conceptual cues can be triggered in a number of ways and then subsequently influence what we attend and respond to in our visual environment.******In the proposed research I aim to make significant advances in understanding the link between conceptual cues and visual attention through rigorously testing two propositions. The first proposition is that the internal spatial representations that conceptual cues activate causes visual attention to be oriented to the corresponding region of space in the visual field, and this unique shift in attention has properties of exogenous attention (it happens automatically) and endogenous attention (it is internally driven). I will test this assumption in three subprograms of research. The second proposition I will test is that the internal spatial representation activated by conceptual cues is flexible, varying across time (short-term) and individuals (long-term). I will examine this proposition in two subprograms of research. Testing these two propositions will result in a more complete understanding of how the processing of conceptual information (which occurs throughout our daily experiences) influences what information from the visual field is selected for further processing. This is important to know, as the visual information we select to process is an important determinant of our current and future behaviour.