Prior-entry: a review.

Journal article

The law of prior entry was one of E.B. Titchener's seven fundamental laws of attention. According to Titchener (1908, p. 251): "the object of attention comes to consciousness more quickly than the objects which we are not attending to." Although researchers have been studying prior entry for more than a century now, progress in understanding the effect has been hindered by the many methodological confounds present in early research. As a consequence, it is unclear whether the behavioral effec...

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Authors: Spence, C; Parise, C

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Consciousness and cognition
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 364-379
• Publication date: 2010-03-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.concog.2009.12.001
• EISSN: 1090-2376
• ISSN: 1053-8100
• Language: English
• Keywords: Auditory Perception; Humans; Cognition; Touch; Brain; Attention; Consciousness; Differential Threshold; Time Perception; Visual Perception; Judgment; Space Perception; Cues