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background activity that necessarily precedes conscious mental activity; major purpose is the preparation of sensory input for use in focal-attentive processes including encoding of the basic properties of sensory input.

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preattentive processing
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preattentive processing
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are a kind of
preattentive processing

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preattentive processing

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Tasks that are asserted to measure preattentive processing

Task Contrast Measure

word identification
  • primed identification

Posner cueing task
  • congruent response time - uncued response time
  • incongruent response time - congruent response time

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