TY - JOUR
AU - Bergum, B O
AB - <jats:p> Hypothesis was tested that under aroused states individuals will attend to relevant visual cues regardless of their location. 100 male Ss were tested in groups of 20 under several combinations of low and high arousal, on both central and peripheral stimuli, which were either relevant or irrelevant to the arousal state. High arousal was generated by shock prior to testing. The results indicated that reaction times are significantly shorter for central stimuli ( p &lt; .01) and that shock-specific arousal conditions yield the shortest reaction times ( p &lt; .05). Most importantly, there was a significant interaction ( p &lt; .01) between signal location and specificity of arousal stimulus. It was concluded that rather than narrowing the perceptual field, location-specific arousing stimuli may increase responsiveness whether the stimulus is central or peripheral. </jats:p>
TI - Perceptual narrowing as a function of peripheral cue relevance.
JF - Perceptual and motor skills
DO - 10.2466/pms.1972.35.3.719
DA - 1973-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/pubmed/perceptual-narrowing-as-a-function-of-peripheral-cue-relevance-T2Sy1DvmEj
SP - 719
EP - 724
VL - 35
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -