2005
Visual Attention in Deaf and Normal Hearing AdultsEffects of Stimulus Compatibility
Sladen D, Tharpe A, Ashmead D, Grantham D, Chun M. Visual Attention in Deaf and Normal Hearing AdultsEffects of Stimulus Compatibility. Journal Of Speech Language And Hearing Research 2005, 48: 1529-1537. PMID: 16478388, DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2005/106).Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDeaf groupHearing groupVisual perceptual skillsGreater interference effectEriksen flanker taskNormal-hearing adultsReaction timeStimulus compatibilityPerceptual skillsFlanker taskVisual attentionTarget letterDissimilar lettersHearing adultsMore errorsDeaf participantsDeaf individualsNormal hearingComputer screenParafoveal eccentricitiesInterference effectsVisual resourcesParticipantsTaskFlankers
1997
Attentional requirements in a ‘preattentive’ feature search task
Joseph J, Chun M, Nakayama K. Attentional requirements in a ‘preattentive’ feature search task. Nature 1997, 387: 805-807. PMID: 9194560, DOI: 10.1038/42940.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRapid serial visual presentation taskVisual presentation taskFeature search taskNumber of distractorsSet-size functionReaction timeAttentional resourcesAttentional requirementsDistractor itemsPresentation taskLetter identificationVisual searchSearch taskVisual systemFeature differencesSimple featuresTaskPreattentiveDistractorsDetection of differencesUnlimited capacityPerceptionItemsCertain featuresAttention