Feature specificity in attentional capture by size and color

Harris, Anthony M.; Remington, Roger W.; Becker, Stefanie I.

doi:10.1167/13.3.12

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“…This conclusion converges with Harris, Remington, and Becker's (2013) finding that in search for size, observers adopt a relational search strategy when both feature and relational strategies are available. In a modified version of Posner's (1980) attention cueing paradigm, observers indicated the orientation of a medium target line among small, or large distractors, respectively.…”

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Flexible cue combination in the guidance of attention in visual search

Brand¹,

Oriet²,

Johnson³

et al. 2014

Acta Psychologica

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Hodsoll and Humphreys (2001) have assessed the relative contributions of stimulus-driven and user-driven knowledge on linearly- and nonlinearly separable search. However, the target feature used to determine linear separability in their task (i.e., target size) was required to locate the target. In the present work, we investigated the contributions of stimulus-driven and user-driven knowledge when a linearly- or nonlinearly-separable feature is available but not required for target identification. We asked observers to complete a series of standard color X orientation conjunction searches in which target size was either linearly- or nonlinearly separable from the size of the distractors. When guidance by color X orientation and by size information are both available, observers rely on whichever information results in the best search efficiency. This is the case irrespective of whether we provide target foreknowledge by blocking stimulus conditions, suggesting that feature information is used in both a stimulus-driven and user-driven fashion.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

Flexible cue combination in the guidance of attention in visual search

Brand¹,

Oriet²,

Johnson³

et al. 2014

Acta Psychologica

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“…The large positive cueing effect observed here for target matching cues has been reported in behavioral studies numerous times (e.g., Folk & Remington 1998;Folk et al 1992Folk et al , 1994Harris et al 2013;Lamy et al 2004;etc. ) and is generally interpreted as indicating the capture of spatial attention by cues possessing a goalrelevant property.…”

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Distinct roles of theta and alpha oscillations in the involuntary capture of goal-directed attention

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“…Consistent with this explanation, false alarm rates were higher in the color-onset condition than in the onset-color condition, suggesting that the similarity between cue context and target was higher. In line with the context-selection hypothesis, other studies also reported cueing costs when contextual cues and targets had the same color (Harris, Remington, & Becker, 2013;Lien, Ruthruff, & Cornett, 2010;Schönhammer, Grubert, Kerzel, & Becker, 2016). Second, the disengagement hypothesis can account for the cueing costs in the color-onset condition by assuming that the color cues caused attentional capture, rapid disengagement, and spatially specific inhibition at the time the target appeared.…”

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Detection costs and contingent attentional capture

Schönhammer

Kerzel

2016

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Peripheral cues reduce reaction times (RTs) to targets at the cued location with short cue-target SOAs (cueing benefits) but increase RTs at long SOAs (cueing costs or inhibition of return). In detection tasks, cueing costs occur at shorter SOAs and are larger compared with identification tasks. To account for effects of task, detection cost theory claims that the integration of cue and target into an object file makes it more difficult to detect the target as a new event, which is the principal task-requirement in detection tasks. The integration of cue and target is expected to increase when cue and target are similar. We provided evidence for detection cost theory in the modified spatial cueing paradigm. Two types of cues (onset, color) were paired with two types of targets (onset, color) in separate blocks of trials. In the identification task, we found cueing benefits with matching (i.e., similar) cue-target pairs (onset-onset, color-color) and no cueing effects with nonmatching cue-target pairs (onset-color, color-onset), which replicates previous work. In the detection task, cueing effects with matching cues were reduced and even turned into cueing costs for onset cues with onset targets, suggesting that cue-target integration made it more difficult to detect targets at the cued location as new events. In contrast, the results for nonmatching cue-target pairs were not affected by task. Furthermore, the pattern of false alarms in the detection task provides a measure of similarity that may explain the size of cueing benefits and costs.

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Feature specificity in attentional capture by size and color

Cited by 36 publications

References 45 publications

Flexible cue combination in the guidance of attention in visual search

Flexible cue combination in the guidance of attention in visual search

Distinct roles of theta and alpha oscillations in the involuntary capture of goal-directed attention

Detection costs and contingent attentional capture

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