Is Posner's "beam" the same as Treisman's "glue"?: On the relation between visual orienting and feature integration theory

• Published in: Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance Vol. 13; no. 2; p. 228
• Main Authors: Briand, K A, Klein, R M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.05.1987
• Subjects: Attention; Cues; Discrimination Learning; Fixation, Ocular; Form Perception; Humans; Optical Illusions; Orientation; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Perceptual Masking; Reaction Time

In the present study we investigated whether the visually allocated "beam" studied by Posner and others is the same visual attentional resource that performs the role of feature integration in Treisman's model. Subjects were cued to attend to a certain spatial location by a visual cue...