On the automaticity of contingent capture: disruption caused by the attentional blink

Du, Feng; Yang, Jiao-yan; Yin, Yue; Zhang, Kan; Abrams, Richard A.

doi:10.3758/s13423-013-0410-7

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“…This was further confirmed by several recent findings [10,11]. Furthermore, Du and Abrams found that the benefit of the exogenous cue was reduced if the cue was presented within 100-200 ms after T1, when the attentional blink would be strongest, but it recovered as the interval between T1 and the cue increased [12][13][14]. Thus, the attentional blink provide a perfect measure of attentional switch characteristics.…”

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Attentional Switch Characteristics are Correlated with the Performance of Simulated Aviation Task

Zhang

Dai

2015

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Abstract. The present study explored what attentional switch characteristics are correlated with simulated aviation task performance. We measure the attentional switch characteristics based on three AB indices. When two targets are presented in a RSVP stream, the impairment in identification of the second target (T2) after correct report of the first target (T1) is attentional blink (AB). First, the overall switch cost is the AB magnitude which is the difference between the highest and lowest accuracy of T2 given correct report of T1 (T2/T1) across five T1-T2 intervals. Second, the general cost of processing T1 is measured by the average accuracy of T2/T1 across intervals. Finally, the AB dwell time is measured by the temporal interval when the accuracy of T2/T1 reach the lowest level across five T1-T2 intervals. The Multi-Attribute Task Battery (MATB) is used to simulate aviation tasks. The results show (1) AB dwell time is significantly correlated with the RT of monitoring dashboard; (2) average accuracy of T2/T1 is correlated with the performance of multiple tasks in the MATB including monitoring dashboard, resource management and tracking tasks. These results indicated that several AB indices might be useful for predicting the simulated aviation performance.

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Attentional Switch Characteristics are Correlated with the Performance of Simulated Aviation Task

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Dai

2015

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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“…Further evidence supporting the idea that contingent capture may also involve a central bottleneck is provided by the observation that the N2pc component elicited by target-colored distractors was reduced when participants undertook a concurrent auditory task, which taxed central resources (Brisson et al, 2009). Moreover, it was recently reported that contingent capture is reduced or eliminated during the attentional blink (Du et al, 2013), suggesting that both phenomena depend on capacity-limited central resources. The notion that contingent capture involves such central resources can also account for the impairment we observed in auditory detection following the target-colored distractor.…”

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Contingent capture of involuntary visual attention interferes with detection of auditory stimuli

Kamke

Harris

2014

Front. Psychol.

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The involuntary capture of attention by salient visual stimuli can be influenced by the behavioral goals of an observer. For example, when searching for a target item, irrelevant items that possess the target-defining characteristic capture attention more strongly than items not possessing that feature. Such contingent capture involves a shift of spatial attention toward the item with the target-defining characteristic. It is not clear, however, if the associated decrements in performance for detecting the target item are entirely due to involuntary orienting of spatial attention. To investigate whether contingent capture also involves a non-spatial interference, adult observers were presented with streams of visual and auditory stimuli and were tasked with simultaneously monitoring for targets in each modality. Visual and auditory targets could be preceded by a lateralized visual distractor that either did, or did not, possess the target-defining feature (a specific color). In agreement with the contingent capture hypothesis, target-colored distractors interfered with visual detection performance (response time and accuracy) more than distractors that did not possess the target color. Importantly, the same pattern of results was obtained for the auditory task: visual target-colored distractors interfered with sound detection. The decrement in auditory performance following a target-colored distractor suggests that contingent capture involves a source of processing interference in addition to that caused by a spatial shift of attention. Specifically, we argue that distractors possessing the target-defining characteristic enter a capacity-limited, serial stage of neural processing, which delays detection of subsequently presented stimuli regardless of the sensory modality.

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“…For example, capture is most likely when the irrelevant stimulus is physically salient (Joseph & Optican, 1996;Pashler, 1988;Theeuwes, 1991), extremely surprising (Asplund, Todd, Snyder, Gilbert, & Marois, 2010;Horstmann, 2002), signals the presence of a new perceptual object , or if it enjoys some level of top-down prioritization (Folk, Remington, & Johnston, 1992;Wolfe, 1994). However, of greatest relevance to the current study, there is also evidence that capture depends on the availability of attentional resources, with it being most likely if some amount of resources remains untapped by one's central preoccupation (Du, Yang, Yin, Zhang, & Abrams, 2013;Santangelo & Spence, 2008). For example, capture can be eliminated if spare resources are occupied with a secondary task (Boot, Brockmole, & Simons, 2005;Santangelo, Olivetti Belardinelli, & Spence, 2007) or if attentional resources are fully "frozen" within the confines of an attentional blink (Du & Abrams, 2009).…”

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Rare targets are less susceptible to attention capture once detection has begun

Hon

Chan

2015

Psychon Bull Rev

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Rare or low probability targets are detected more slowly and/ or less accurately than higher probability counterparts. Various proposals have implicated perceptual and response-based processes in this deficit. Recent evidence, however, suggests that it is attentional in nature, with low probability targets requiring more attentional resources than high probability ones to detect. This difference in attentional requirements, in turn, suggests the possibility that low and high probability targets may have different susceptibilities to attention capture, which is also known to be resource-dependent. Supporting this hypothesis, we found that, once attentional resources have begun to be engaged by detection processes, low, but not high, probability targets have a reduced susceptibility to capture. Our findings speak to several issues. First, they indicate that the likelihood of attention capture occurring when a given task-relevant stimulus is being processed is dependent, to some extent, on how said stimulus is represented within mental task sets. Second, they provide added support for the idea that the behavioural deficit associated with low probability targets is attention-based. Finally, the current data point to reduced top-down biasing of target templates as a likely mechanism underlying the attentional locus of the deficit in question.

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On the automaticity of contingent capture: disruption caused by the attentional blink

Cited by 7 publications

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Attentional Switch Characteristics are Correlated with the Performance of Simulated Aviation Task

Attentional Switch Characteristics are Correlated with the Performance of Simulated Aviation Task

Contingent capture of involuntary visual attention interferes with detection of auditory stimuli

Rare targets are less susceptible to attention capture once detection has begun

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