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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 29.
Published in final edited form as: Atten Percept Psychophys. 2014 Nov;76(8):2286–2304. doi: 10.3758/s13414-014-0705-4

Table 3.

Towards a taxonomy of spatially oriented attention.

Conditions Effects
Cue Type Set Size or Workload Judgment Precision Asymptotic Accuracy Stimulus Enhancement External Noise Exclusion
Endogenous Low Low No No Yes
High Yes No Yes
High Low No No Yes
High Yes No Yes
Exogenous Low Low No Sometimes Yes
High Yes Sometimes Yes
High Low No Sometimes Yes
High Yes Sometimes Yes

Note: External noise exclusion occurs in high external noise or masked conditions. Stimulus enhancement occurs in low or zero external noise conditions. Stimulus enhancement may occur in some circumstances for peripheral precuing.