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Keywords:  Posner cuing task, spatial orienting, tonic alertness, voluntary
temporal preparation, reflexive attention

Citation:  Hayward DA and Ristic J (2013) Measuring attention using the Posner
cuing paradigm: the role of across and within trial target probabilities.
_Front. Hum. Neurosci_ . **7** :205. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00205

Received:  12 February 2013;  Accepted:  02 May 2013;
Published online:  17 May 2013.

Edited by:

 John J. Foxe

, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, USA

Reviewed by:

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, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
 John I. Broussard

, Baylor College of Medicine, USA

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*Correspondence:  Dana A. Hayward and Jelena Ristic, Department of Psychology, McGill University, 1205 Dr Penfield Ave., Montreal, QC H3A1B1, Canada. e-mail: dana.hayward@mail.mcgill.ca; jelena.ristic@mcgill.ca