Attentional Capture Can Depend on Search Mode

Remington, Roger W.; Folk, Charles L.; Null, Cynthia H.

doi:10.1037/e537272012-596

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“…Our results are consistent with some data reported earlier by Remington and Folk (1994). In that study, participants searched for an unpredictable color singleton (i.e., either an orange, green, or violet singleton).…”

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confidence: 93%

“…Our findings are similar to those reported by Remington and Folk (1994). Only in our Experiment 2, in which both the color of the target and the color of the singleton were fixed over trials, did we find that it was possible to ignore processing of the irrelevant singleton.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…In terms of the contingent capture hypothesis, participants could adopt only an attentional control setting that could be set to ignore “something unique.” Only if attention could be set to attend to something “not unique” could distraction from the irrelevant singleton have been prevented. These findings showing interference by the irrelevant unique singleton are consistent with results from a study by Remington and Folk (1994), who showed that attention cannot be set to ignore distractor properties.…”

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“…There are, however, important differences between Remington and Folk's (1994) study and our study. The most important difference is that in their study, participants had to respond to a singleton in the search display while ignoring a singleton in the cue display.…”

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“…On the other hand, when the color of the cue is known (fixed over trials) and the color of the target is unknown (varied over trials), it is impossible to exclude the cue, and attention is captured. Remington and Folk (1994) concluded that one can selectively filter distractors when one can adopt an attentional set for a specific feature value (i.e., have an attentional set to respond to green). If the target is not consistently predictable (either green, violet, or orange), attention is broadly set to respond to any singleton.…”

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Attentional control during visual search: The effect of irrelevant singletons.

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Burger²

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Four experiments investigated whether a highly salient color singleton can be ignored during serial search. Observers searched for a target letter among nontarget letters and were instructed to ignore an irrelevant, highly salient color singleton that was either compatible or incompatible with the response to the target letter. The results indicate that it was possible to prevent attentional capture by the irrelevant singleton only when both the target and the distractor color were known. When either the color of the target or the color of the to-be-ignored singleton were varied over trials, the irrelevant singleton captured attention. The ability to selectively falter singleton distractors during serial search depends on the presence of an attentional set for a specific feature value of both target and distractor. In the absence of a consistently predictable feature value of both target and distractor, top-down control is not possible. Among the most fundamental issues of visual attention research is the extent to which visual selection is controlled by the properties of the image or by the intentions, goals, and beliefs of the observer (for recent reviews, see Egeth &

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Attentional control during visual search: The effect of irrelevant singletons.

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1998

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Attentional and oculomotor capture with static singletons

Theeuwes

Vries

Godijn

2003

Perception & Psychophysics

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Previous research has shown that in visual search static singletons have the ability to capture attention (Theeuwes, 1991a(Theeuwes, , 1992. The present study investigatedwhether these singletons also have the ability to capture the eyes. Participants had to make an eye movement and respond manually to a shape singleton while a color singleton was present. When participants searched for a unique shape while a unique color singleton was present there was strong attentional and oculomotor capture (Experiment 1). However, when participants searched for a specific-shape singleton (a green circle) when a specific-color singleton (a red element) had to be ignored, there was attentional capture but no oculomotor capture (Experiment 2). The results suggest that an attentional set for a specific feature value defining both the target and the distractor (as in Experiment 2) allows such a fast disengagement of attention from the location of the distractor that a saccade execution to that location is prevented.

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Attentional Capture Can Depend on Search Mode

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Attentional control during visual search: The effect of irrelevant singletons.

Attentional control during visual search: The effect of irrelevant singletons.

Attentional and oculomotor capture with static singletons

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