TY - JOUR PY - 2015// TI - Does oculomotor readiness mediate exogenous capture of visual attention? JO - Journal of experimental psychology: human perception and performance A1 - MacLean, Gregory H. A1 - Klein, Raymond M. A1 - Hilchey, Matthew D. SP - 1260 EP - 1270 VL - 41 IS - 5 N2 - The oculomotor readiness hypothesis makes 2 predictions: Shifts in covert attention are accompanied by preparedness to move one's eyes to the attended region, and preparedness to move one's eyes to a region in space is accompanied by a shift in covert attention to the prepared location. Both predictions have been disconfirmed using an endogenous attention task. In the 2 experiments presented here, the same 2 predictions were tested using an exogenous attention task. It was found that participants experienced covert capture without accompanying oculomotor activation and experienced oculomotor activation without accompanying covert capture. While under everyday conditions the overt and covert orienting systems may be strongly linked, apparently they can nonetheless operate with a high degree of independence from one another. (PsycINFO Database Record

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