Peripheral cuing by abrupt-onset cues: the influence of color in S–R corresponding conditions

Ansorge, Ulrich; Heumann, Manfred

doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2004.01.001

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“…Further evidence confirming our results was found in a study of Ansorge and Heumann (2004). In their study, a variant of the peripheral cuing paradigm was applied.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

The impact of the irrelevant: The task environment modulates the impact of irrelevant features in response selection.

Mast

Frings

2014

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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There has been a lively debate concerning the impact of contingent top-down control settings on the occurrence of stimulus-driven attentional capture. To date, however, most studies have focused on the manipulation of just a single feature. Here, a variant of the response priming task was utilized in which multiple features as opposed to just a single feature were varied. Two types of features were defined: the response feature(s) (i.e., those features that are used to prepare the correct response) and the selection feature(s) (i.e., those features that help to separate the target against the distractor). The response feature was manipulated for the target as well as for the distractor. For a certain experimental block, the selection feature in the distractor was either fixed (not helpful for the separation of the target) or varied (helpful for the separation of the target). Because of this manipulation of the task environment (Experiment 1-3), differences in the size of the compatibility effect (i.e., the difference between compatible and incompatible trials) were observed for perceptually identical distractor-target sequences. In a task environment with varying selection features, a distractor that shared the selection feature with the top-down sets gave rise to larger compatibility effects than exactly the same distractor presented in a task environment where the selection feature was kept constant. However, participants must have explicit knowledge about the variance of the selection feature to implement the selection feature into their top-down sets. A model based on contingent capture was postulated to explain our results because of the feature-overlap between the distractor and the participants' top-down sets.

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“…Further evidence confirming our results was found in a study of Ansorge and Heumann (2004). In their study, a variant of the peripheral cuing paradigm was applied.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 91%

The impact of the irrelevant: The task environment modulates the impact of irrelevant features in response selection.

Mast

Frings

2014

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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“…By contrast, the smallest compatibility effects were observed following the presentation of unimodal shape-incongruent distractors-that is, distractors that were very dissimilar from the target. The results of Experiment 2 are in line with the assumption that a decline in target-distractor similarity should decrease the potential of a distractor to attract attention automatically (see Ansorge & Heumann, 2003;Ansorge & Heumann, 2004;. Most important, however, is the observation that even in the shape-incongruent condition, larger compatibility effects were found after the presentation of a bimodal distractor than after the presentation of a unimodal distractor.…”

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confidence: 76%

“…If the subsequent target happened to have been presented from the same spatial location as the cue stimulus, processing was speeded up. These findings have now been replicated in numerous studies involving both spatial (Anderson & Folk, 2010;Ansorge & Heumann, 2003, 2004Eimer, Kiss, Press, & Sauter, 2009;Folk & Remington, 1998;Folk, Remington, & Wright, 1994) and nonspatial attentional blink (AB) tasks (Folk, Leber, & Egeth, 2008; see also Folk et al, 2002, for another AB task, but with spatial distractors). Taken together, such results provide robust support for the importance of top-down mechanisms in attentional capture.…”

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“…In line with the assumption of extended multisensory top-down sets (cf. Folk et al, 1992), bimodal distractors led to enhanced capture of participants' attention, indicated by the increased compatibility effects relative to unimodal distractors (see Ansorge & Heumann, 2003, 2004, for similar effects in a unisensory spatial-cuing task, but with color as the feature used to vary target-distractor similarity). In the unimodal target condition, the presence of the target was never accompanied by a tactile stimulus, and hence the top-down sets should only have been composed of visual features.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Multisensory top-down sets: Evidence for contingent crossmodal capture

Mast

Frings

Spence

2015

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Numerous studies that have investigated visual selective attention have demonstrated that a salient but taskirrelevant stimulus can involuntarily capture a participant's attention. Over the years, a lively debate has erupted concerning the impact of contingent top-down control settings on such stimulus-driven attentional capture. In the research reported here, we investigated whether top-down sets would also affect participants' performance in a multisensory task setting. A nonspatial compatibility task was used, in which the target and the distractor were always presented sequentially from the same spatial location. We manipulated targetdistractor similarity by varying the visual and tactile features of the stimuli. Participants always responded to the visual target features (color); the tactile features were incorporated into the participants' top-down set only when the experimental context allowed for the tactile feature to be used in order to discriminate the target from the distractor. Larger compatibility effects after bimodal distractors were observed only when the participants were searching for a bimodal target and when tactile information was useful. Taken together, these results provide the first demonstration of nonspatial contingent crossmodal capture.

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“…It is important to note that many previous studies demonstrated a very efficient top-down guidance of search for a particular, well-discriminated color (cf. Ansorge & Heumann, 2003, 2004Folk & Remington, 1998;Green & Anderson, 1956). In Experiment 1, this assumption was supported by a lower mean RT in the color block than in the motion block.…”

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Visual search for a motion singleton among coherently moving distractors

Ansorge

Scharlau

Labudda

2004

Psychological Research

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In the current study, we tested whether search for a visual motion singleton presented among several coherently moving distractors can be more efficient than search for a motion stimulus presented with a single distractor. Under a variety of conditions, multiple spatially distributed and coherently moving distractors facilitated search for a uniquely moving target relative to a single-motion-distractor condition (Experiments 1, 3, and 4). Color coherencies among static distractors were not equally effective (Experiments 1 and 2). These results confirm that humans are highly sensitive to antagonistically directed motion signals in backgrounds compared with spatially more confined regions of visual images.

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Peripheral cuing by abrupt-onset cues: the influence of color in S–R corresponding conditions

Cited by 34 publications

References 41 publications

The impact of the irrelevant: The task environment modulates the impact of irrelevant features in response selection.

The impact of the irrelevant: The task environment modulates the impact of irrelevant features in response selection.

Multisensory top-down sets: Evidence for contingent crossmodal capture

Visual search for a motion singleton among coherently moving distractors

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