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Spatial Cueing
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2023
Source: Laboratory of Jonathan Flombaum—Johns Hopkins University Attention refers to the limited human ability to select some information for processing at the expense of other stimuli in the environment. Attention operates in all sensory modalities: vision, hearing, touch, even taste and smell. It is most often studied in the visual domain though. A common way to study visual attention is with a spatial cueing paradigm. This paradigm allows researchers to measure the consequences of focusing...
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Measuring Sensitivity to Viewpoint Change with and without Stereoscopic Cues
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2013
We discuss a novel method forviewpoint-rotation of visual stimuli, and demonstrate using a mirror stereoscopethe three-dimensional percept of rotation-in-depth. The technique can be used to investigate the role of stereoscopic cues in encoding viewpoint-rotated figures.
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Non-Verbal Cues
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2025
Non-verbal communication extends beyond gestures and facial expressions to include vocal elements known as paralanguage. Paralanguage consists of non-verbal vocal cues such as pitch, loudness, speech rate, pauses, and non-verbal vocalizations like laughter, sighs, and moans. These elements not only accompany speech but also provide critical emotional and contextual information.The Role of Paralanguage in CommunicationParalanguage adds depth to spoken language by conveying emotions and...
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A Protocol for Measuring Cue Reactivity in a Rat Model of Cocaine Use Disorder
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2018
Cue reactivity is conceptualized as sensitivity to cues linked with drug-taking experiences that contribute to craving and relapse in abstinent humans. Cue reactivity is modeled in rats by measuring attentional orientation toward drug-associated cues that results in appetitive approach behavior in a cue reactivity test following self-administration and forced abstinence.
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Assessing Interneuron Response to Chemoattractive Cues from Periventricular Endothelial Cells
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2025
This video shows a method to test interneuron migration in response to chemoattractive cues from periventricular endothelial cells (PVECs). Interneurons are placed in a central compartment, with PVECs and control cells on either side. Increased migration towards PVECs indicates a positive response to their chemoattractive signals.
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Source cues can activate memories and contextual associations connected with a speaker, location, sensory channel, or prior experience. Those associations may direct attention toward particular aspects of an event and shape how its message is interpreted. The resulting interpretation can then affect later behavior, including responses to social signals, judgments about information, and choices between alternatives.
A message does not operate independently of its source context. When the same content appears with different speakers, locations, sensory channels, or prior associations, the accompanying cue can activate different contextual memories. These differences may alter how individuals evaluate the information and what they do afterward, making source context important for studying communication and judgment.
Source monitoring helps individuals connect remembered information with where it originated rather than relying only on the information’s content. If those origin-related associations are evaluated during remembering, they can influence whether a person accepts, questions, or acts on a message. Behavioral research therefore uses source cues to examine how misinformation can affect memory, evaluation, and subsequent choices.
Sensory channels, such as the way information is experienced, can provide contextual links to an event, while social features can connect it with a particular speaker or interaction. Both types of cue contribute information about origin, but they may guide attention and interpretation through different associations. Comparing them helps behavioral researchers examine how context shapes responses to information.
A basic design can keep the communicated content constant while varying the feature that signals its origin, such as the speaker, location, sensory channel, or relevant prior experience. Researchers can then examine differences in attention, interpretation, memory, evaluation, or choice. This comparison helps isolate how contextual source information contributes to behavioral outcomes beyond the message itself.
Studies can assess how source information affects learning, memory, communication, judgment, and decision making. Depending on the research question, outcomes may include what individuals remember about an experience, how they evaluate information, how they respond to social signals, or which option they choose. These measures connect source-related processes with observable behavioral consequences.
Learning and memory depend not only on what was encountered but also on associations linking an experience to its origin and context. Source cues provide behavioral researchers with a way to examine those links and their effects on later remembering. This perspective is useful for understanding why contextual information can influence interpretation, evaluation, and behavior after an experience.