Journal article
Whatever you do, don’t look at the… Evaluating guidance by an exclusionary attentional template
Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance, Vol.44(4), pp.645-662
04/2018
DOI: 10.1037/xhp0000485
PMCID: PMC5897154
PMID: 29035075
Abstract
People can use a target template consisting of one or more features to guide attention and gaze to matching objects in a search array. But can we also use feature information to guide attention
away
from known irrelevant items? Some studies found a benefit from foreknowledge of a distractor feature, while others found a cost. Importantly, previous work has largely relied on end-of-trial manual responses; it is unclear how feature-guided avoidance might unfold as candidate objects are inspected. In the current experiments, participants were cued with a distractor feature to avoid, then performed a visual search task while eye movements were recorded. Participants initially fixated a to-be-avoided object more frequently than predicted by chance, but they also demonstrated avoidance of cue-matching objects later in the trial. When provided more time between cue stimulus and search array, participants continued to be initially captured by a cued-color item. Furthermore, avoidance of cue-matching objects later in the trial was not contingent on initial capture by a cue-matching object. These results suggest that the conflicting findings in previous negative-cue experiments may be explained by a mixture of two independent processes: initial attentional capture by memory-matching items and later avoidance of known irrelevant items.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Whatever you do, don’t look at the… Evaluating guidance by an exclusionary attentional template
- Creators
- Valerie M Beck - University of California, DavisSteven J Luck - University of California, DavisAndrew Hollingworth - University of California, Davis
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance, Vol.44(4), pp.645-662
- DOI
- 10.1037/xhp0000485
- PMID
- 29035075
- PMCID
- PMC5897154
- ISSN
- 0096-1523
- eISSN
- 1939-1277
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100000002, name: National Institutes of Health, award: R01MH076226, R01MH065034, and R01EY017356; name: National Science Foundation
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 04/2018
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences
- Record Identifier
- 9984002594002771
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