Journal article
Experience-dependent attentional tuning of distractor rejection
Psychonomic bulletin & review, Vol.19(5), pp.871-878
10/2012
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-012-0280-4
PMID: 22696250
Abstract
Irrelevant salient distractors often capture attention, but given a sufficiently specific search template, these salient items no longer capture attention. In the present experiments, we investigated whether specific target templates are sufficient to resist capture, or whether experience with the salient distractors is also necessary. To test this hypothesis, observers completed four blocks of trials, each with a different-colored irrelevant singleton present on half of the trials. Color singletons captured attention early within a block, but after sufficient experience with the irrelevant singletons, those singletons no longer captured attention in the second halves of the blocks. This result suggests that to resist capture, a specific target template must be accompanied by experience-dependent attentional tuning to distractor properties.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Experience-dependent attentional tuning of distractor rejection
- Creators
- Daniel B Vatterott - Department of Psychology, University of Iowa, E11 Seashore Hall, Iowa City, IA 52242-1407, USA. daniel-vatterott@uiowa.eduShaun P Vecera
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Psychonomic bulletin & review, Vol.19(5), pp.871-878
- DOI
- 10.3758/s13423-012-0280-4
- PMID
- 22696250
- NLM abbreviation
- Psychon Bull Rev
- ISSN
- 1069-9384
- eISSN
- 1531-5320
- Publisher
- United States
- Grant note
- R01AG026027 / NIA NIH HHS
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/2012
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984002581802771
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