Mecanismos y bases electrofisiológicas de la atención involuntaria

  1. Martín Arévalo, Elisa
Supervised by:
  1. Juan Lupiáñez Castillo Director
  2. Ana B. Chica Co-director

Defence university: Universidad de Granada

Fecha de defensa: 19 July 2013

Committee:
  1. Pío Tudela Garmendia Chair
  2. María Jesús Funes Molina Secretary
  3. Carlos María Gómez González Committee member
  4. Ruth de Diego Balaguer Committee member
  5. Bernhard Hommel Committee member
Department:
  1. PSICOLOGÍA EXPERIMENTAL

Type: Thesis

Abstract

According to the reorienting hypothesis (Posner & Cohen, 1985), both the facilitatory and IOR effect are explained by the same mechanism: engagement and disengagement of attention, respectively. This disengagement of attention has been considered a necessary and sufficient condition for IOR to be observed (see Klein, 2000, for a review). However, some researchers have recently shown that disengaging attention might be neither necessary nor sufficient for the IOR effect to be observed (see Lupiáñez, 2010, for a review). Therefore, a theoretical explanation of exogenous cueing effects in general and IOR in particular is awaiting.