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Publications by Gordon LoganLogan, G. D. (1995). Linguistic and conceptual control of visual spatial attention. Cognitive Psychology, 28, 103-174.Proposes a theory of linguistic and conceptual direction of visual spatial attention that contrasts 3 classes of spatial relations (basic, deictic, and intrinsic) and explains how linguistic cues direct attention from 1 object to another. The theory views attention as a set of mechanisms that establish correspondences between perceptual and conceptual representations of space. Reference frames are interpreted as mechanisms of attention that are similar to spatial indices, but with more computational power. Results of 11 attentional cueing experiments that manipulated the relation between cue and target among a total of 196 university students indicated that reference frames are important mechanisms of attentional selection and can be rotated and translated across space according to the observer's intentions. Semantics of the relation between cue and target also strongly affected performance. |
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