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Using a More Intuitive Cue in a Temporal Attention Discrimination Task to Compare Endogenous and Exogenous Mechanisms

Temporal attention is a cognitive mechanism that allows individuals to prepare to respond to ananticipated event. Lawrence and Klein (2013) distinguished two forms of temporal attention: oneelicited by purely endogenous alerting mechanisms, and one elicited through exogenous alertingmechanisms. Recently, McCormick et al. displayed that these mechanisms generate additiveeffects on reaction time, however more informative speed and accuracy comparisons were notpossible due to them being measured during a detection task. The current pair of experimentslooks to compare these two forms of temporal attention in a discrimination task while measuringboth speed and accuracy, by inducing methodological modifications that lower task demand.These manipulations were successful, as temporal cueing effects were observed for both thecombined form and the less-studied purely endogenous form. However, speed-accuracyperformance for these two forms of temporal attention did not align with our predictions basedon Lawrence and Klein (2013), leading us to speculate on the generalizability of their results.