Contingent capture of visual-spatial attention depends on capacity-limited central mechanisms: Evidence from human electrophysiology and the psychological refractory period

Brisson, Benoît; Leblanc, Émilie; Jolicœur, Pierre

doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2008.10.001

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“…This result is consistent with previous findings that the N2pc associated with color-matched distractors was attenuated during psychological refractory period tasks (Brisson et al, 2009), but differs from the behavioral results of that same study, thus helping to clarify that a behavioral index is sensitive enough to detect the suppressive effect of AB on contingent capture.…”

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“…In order to test the automaticity of contingent capture, in the present experiments we adopted an AB paradigm with two important methodological features. First, T1 was a visual instead of an auditory target, as in the Brisson et al (2009) study, which might increase modality-specific interference to contingent capture. Second, color-matched distractors could appear 94 ms after T1, an interval shorter than that used by Brisson et al, and one that is more likely to produce strong suppression of attentional capture (Visser, 2011).…”

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“…One study incorporated a contingent-capture task as the second task of a psychological refractory period paradigm to test the impact of tone processing on contingent capture (Brisson, Leblanc, & Jolicoeur, 2009). The study used the N2pc response, an enhanced negativity over posterior scalp electrodes contralateral to attended stimuli, in order to index contingent capture.…”

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

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Yin

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Converging evidence has shown that onset capture can be completely eliminated by the demands of a concurrent task and during the attentional blink. In the present study, we investigated contingent capture during the attentional blink. We found that contingent capture was attenuated, or even completely eliminated, during the "blink" time of the attentional blink. These results indicate that contingent capture requires limited attentional resources.

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“…Although attending to goal-relevant events such as means is shown to be automatic in the sense of fast and involuntary, it could be capacity demanding (Brisson, Leblanc, & Jolicoeur, 2009) and thus less likely to occur when cognitive resources are depleted as the result of a strong emotional (disgust) experience.…”

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On the role of goal relevance in emotional attention: Disgust evokes early attention to cleanliness

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“…Interestingly, this reduced effect of task set was driven by a selective reduction in the N2pc associated with task-relevant distractors, with no change apparent in the N2pc associated with task-irrelevant distractors. These observations dovetail nicely with the findings of Brisson et al (2009), who found that a different manipulation of cognitive load had a similar effect on the N2pc as was observed here. In this previous study, the availability of cognitive resources was manipulated by presenting lateralised coloured distractors during or outside the PRP.…”

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Top-down and bottom-up processes in vision

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To help us efficiently navigate our information-rich environment, the human brain has developed a set of cognitive mechanisms aimed at quickly identifying information that is likely to be behaviourally relevant, collectively referred to as selective attention. Attentional resources can be directed voluntarily, as occurs when we shift attention from one word to the next while reading; or involuntarily, such as when attention is captured by someone unexpectedly entering the room (Yantis, 2000). These two modes of attention are not as independent and clearly distinguishable as once thought (Gilbert & Li, 2013). For example, the extent to which a stimulus involuntarily captures attention is influenced by whether it possesses features relevant to an observer's current task (the contingent capture hypothesis; Folk, . Attentional capture is also affected by the level of working memory (WM) load an observer is under (Lavie, Hirst, Viding, & De Fockert, 2004), and by an observer's WM capacity (Vogel, McCollough, & Machizawa, 2005).It has been suggested that maintaining top-down biases on attentional capture may require -and compete for -similar neural resources as WM (e.g., Lavie et al., 2004). If so, top-down influences on attentional capture should be reduced (a) when an observer is under high WM load, and (b) in individuals with a low WM capacity. In this thesis these possibilities were tested in a series of seven experiments in which human observers monitored visual stimulus streams for targets defined by a particular feature value (e.g., red). While observers performed these tasks, I took behavioural and electrophysiological measures of attentional capture by distracting visual stimuli that either possessed or did not possess the target feature value. I then investigated whether taxing WM reduces contingent capture. An n-back task that required information-updating eliminated the influence of task set on the distractor-evoked N2pc, suggesting that taxing WM compromised top-down biases on early visual processing. There was no such effect on a behavioural measure of attentional capture, however, possibly because taxing WM also compromised the transfer of information from early visual cortex to later stages of processing. A iii digit rehearsal task that required only information maintenance did not change the effect of task set on either the N2pc or behaviour. This pattern of results suggests that contingent capture is only reduced by WM load manipulations that place demands on the central executive component of WM (Baddeley & Hitch, 1974).Next I tested whether high WM load can reduce the effect of task set on even earlier stages of processing than the N2pc, specifically by measuring the P1 component of the visual-evoked potential. Unexpectedly, I failed to replicate a previous finding of an effect of feature-based task set on the P1. Because I found no effect of task set on the P1, I was unable to test whether such an effect was reduced under high WM load.In a final experiment I examined whether individual dif...

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Contingent capture of visual-spatial attention depends on capacity-limited central mechanisms: Evidence from human electrophysiology and the psychological refractory period

Cited by 34 publications

References 36 publications

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

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

On the role of goal relevance in emotional attention: Disgust evokes early attention to cleanliness

Top-down and bottom-up processes in vision

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