Cross-dimensional perceptual selectivity

Theeuwes, Jan

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“…Theeuwes (1991Theeuwes ( , 1992Theeuwes ( , 1994 showed that knowing that you have to search for a shape singleton cannot prevent attentional capture by a completely irrelevant color singleton, not even after 2,000 trials of practice (see Theeuwes, 1992, Experiment 2). In addition, there is evidence that, after the initial sweep of information, recurrent processing involving top-down control may allow immediate disengagement of attention and redirect it to objects that are in line with the top-down goals.…”

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“…In line with the two-stage approach, passing on an item to the second stage of processing implies that this item has been selected for further processing (e.g., Broadbent, 1958;Treisman & Gelade, 1980) Since the late 1970s and early 1980s, there has been agreement that visual selective attention can be directed to a nonfixated location in space (e.g., Eriksen & Hoffman, 1973;Hoffman, 1975;Posner, Snyder, & Davidson, 1980). Providing information about the location of an upcoming target may enhance the efficiency of processing (e.g., Posner et al, 1980), reduce stimulus uncertainty (e.g., Eckstein, Shimozaki, & Abbey, 2002;Palmer, 1994), reduce interference from unattended locations (e.g., Theeuwes, 1991), or suppress masking at attended locations (Enns & Di Lollo, 1997). The effective utilization of spatial information is related to the attention mechanism that operates analogous to a beam of light.…”

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The role of spatial and nonspatial information in visual selection

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Burg²

2006

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Even though it is undisputed that prior information regarding the location of a target affects visual selection, the issue of whether information regarding nonspatial features, such as color and shape, has similar effects has been a matter of debate since the early 1980s. In the study described in this article, measures derived from signal detection theory were used to show that perceptual sensitivity is affected by a top-down set for spatial information but not by a top-down set for nonspatial information. This indicates that knowing where the target singleton is affects perceptual selectivity but that knowing what it is does not help selectivity. Furthermore, perceptual sensitivity can be enhanced by nonspatial features, but only through a process related to bottom-up priming. These findings have important implications for models of visual selection.

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The role of spatial and nonspatial information in visual selection

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“…Bottom-up vs top-down processes. Some stimuli are particularly difficult to ignore and 7 capture attention automatically even when they are far away from the focus of attention 8 (Theeuwes, 1991). This involuntary capture of attention is defined as "bottom-up" or 9 "stimulus driven".…”

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Attention to pain! A neurocognitive perspective on attentional modulation of pain in neuroimaging studies

Torta

Legrain

Mouraux

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Cortex

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“…Attentional Bias Development Although there has been great debate on how visual stimuli are selected for further processing (Theeuwes, 1991;1992;Belopolsky & Theeuwes, 2010;Folk et al, 1992;Bacon & Egeth, 1994), one generally accepted proposal is that observers can activate one of two distinctive attentional sets:…”

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Altering attentional control settings causes persistent biases of visual attention

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Smith

Knight

et al. 2016

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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. (2015) 'Altering attentional control settings causes persistent biases of visual attention.', The quarterly journal of experimental psychology., 69 (1). pp. 129-149.Further information on publisher's website:https://doi.org/10. 1080/17470218.2015.1031144 Publisher's copyright statement:This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor Francis in the quarterly journal of experimental psychology. on 13/05/2015 available online:http://www.tandfonline.com/10. 1080/17470218.2015.1031144 Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. arbitrary stimulus in healthy participants. Subjects were biased towards the colour green by an information sheet. Attentional bias was assessed using a change detection task. After an interval of either 1 or 2 weeks participants were then either re-tested on the same change detection task, tested on a different change detection task where colour was irrelevant, or were biased towards an alternative colour. One experiment included trials in which the distracter stimuli (but never the target stimuli) were green. The key finding was that green stimuli in the second task attracted attention, despite this impairing task performance. Furthermore, inducing a second attentional bias did not override the initial bias toward green objects. The attentional bias also persisted for at least two weeks. It is argued that this persistent attentional bias is mediated by a chronic change to participants attentional control settings, which is aided by long-term representations involving contextual cuing. We speculate that similar changes to attentional control settings and continuous cuing may relate to attentional biases observed in psychopathologies. Targeting these biases may be a productive approach to treatment.Attentional Bias Development Although there has been great debate on how visual stimuli are selected for further processing (Theeuwes, 1991;1992;Belopolsky & Theeuwes, 2010;Folk et al., 1992;Bacon & Egeth, 1994), one generally accepted proposal is that observers can activate one of two distinctive attentional sets:Attentional Bias Development 5Singleton Detection Mode or Feature Search Mode (Bacon & Egeth, 1994; Leber & Egeth, 2006b).Singleton Detection Mode is based purely on the physical salience of an item, allowing the most salient item in a visual field -such as a feature singleton (a red item amongst greyscale items) -to capture attention. Alternatively, Feature Search Mode relies on a defining target feature -such as a particular colour -and is a much narrower attentional se...

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Cross-dimensional perceptual selectivity

Cited by 674 publications

References 27 publications

The role of spatial and nonspatial information in visual selection

The role of spatial and nonspatial information in visual selection

Attention to pain! A neurocognitive perspective on attentional modulation of pain in neuroimaging studies

Altering attentional control settings causes persistent biases of visual attention

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