Abstract
It is known that the covert orienting of visual attention task, developed by Posner(1980), has been influential in the progress of many studies on visual attention. Such spatial attention is captured and allocated at a cued position. It is considered to facilitate information processing of visual function.
However, an action of others can provide oneself some spatial cues in daily situations. So we attempted to prove that the finger-pointing of others had an influence on the attentional capture.
The experiments based on above assumption were constructed as follow, with three subject factors, namely; a. the cue condition( valid or invalid or neutral), b. stimulus onset asynchrony(SOA :150, 300, 600ms) between the cue and the target, c. stimulus condition(finger-pointing image and arrow image).
Using these experiment conditions, we’ll examine the influence of finger-pointing cues to function effectively as to the direction on spatial attention on visual task.
