Attentional Capture with Rapidly Changing Attentional Control Settings

Autor/inn/en	Lien, Mei-Ching; Ruthruff, Eric; Johnston, James C.
Titel	Attentional Capture with Rapidly Changing Attentional Control Settings
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 36 (2010) 1, S.1-16 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0096-1523
DOI	10.1037/a0015875
Schlagwörter	Visual Stimuli; Attention Control; Spatial Ability; Visual Perception; Memory; Task Analysis; Color; Reaction Time; Undergraduate Students; Oregon + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aufmerksamkeitstest; Räumliches Vorstellungsvermögen; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Gedächtnis; Aufgabenanalyse; Colour; Farbbezeichnung; Farbe; Reaktionsvermögen
Abstract	The classic theory of spatial attention hypothesized 2 modes, voluntary and involuntary. Folk, Remington, and Johnston (1992) reported that even involuntary attention capture by stimuli requires a match between stimulus properties and what the observer is looking for. This surprising conclusion has been confirmed by many subsequent studies. In these studies, however, the observer typically looks for the same property throughout an entire session. Real-world behavior, in contrast, often requires frequent shifts in attentional set. The present study examined whether such shifts weaken attentional settings, allowing task-irrelevant objects to capture attention. Surprisingly, fluctuating control settings did not increase vulnerability to capture by salient stimuli (color singletons and abrupt onsets). We conclude that the attention control system is remarkably flexible, able to rapidly and fully adopt new settings and abandon old settings. (Contains 4 tables and 5 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10