Overriding stimulus-driven attentional capture

Bacon, William F.; Egeth, Howard E.

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“…Nevertheless, both views bear some resemblance. Indeed, the timing notion may even be perceived as being consistent with the distinction between the singleton detection mode and the feature search mode, as proposed by Bacon and Egeth (1994). However, in contrast to the idea that observers may voluntarily choose to be engaged in one or the other mode, a timing notion assumes that the singleton detection mode is initially mandatory, possibly followed by a feature search mode (see also Lamy & Egeth, 2003).…”

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The Role of Stimulus-Driven and Goal-Driven Control in Saccadic Visual Selection.

Zoest¹,

Donk²,

Theeuwes³

2004

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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Four experiments were conducted to investigate the role of stimulus-driven and goal-driven control in saccadic eye movements. Participants were required to make a speeded saccade toward a predefined target presented concurrently with multiple nontargets and possibly 1 distractor. Target and distractor were either equally salient (Experiments 1 and 2) or not (Experiments 3 and 4). The results uniformly demonstrated that fast eye movements were completely stimulus driven, whereas slower eye movements were goal driven. These results are in line with neither a bottom-up account nor a top-down notion of visual selection. Instead, they indicate that visual selection is the outcome of 2 independent processes, one stimulus driven and the other goal driven, operating in different time windows.

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The Role of Stimulus-Driven and Goal-Driven Control in Saccadic Visual Selection.

Zoest¹,

Donk²,

Theeuwes³

2004

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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“…The foils were employed to form a uniform background in order to make the target and the distractor appear as feature singletons. Singletons are known to 13 capture attention under most circumstances (Theeuwes, 1992;; for a review, see Theeuwes & Godijn, 2001), especially when the target is a singleton and thus induces participants to rely on "singleton detection mode" (Bacon & Egeth, 1994). 1 To induce our participants to adopt a singleton detection mode, we constructed the stimulus displays so that on any given trial there was one colored stimulus and one uniquely oriented stimulus in an otherwise homogenous background made of many identical elements.…”

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When does visual attention select all features of a distractor?

Chen

Cave

2006

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Perfor

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What happens after visual attention is allocated to an object? Although many theories of attention assume that all of its features are selected and processed, there has been little direct evidence that an irrelevant feature dimension of an attended nontarget is processed. In 5 experiments presented here, the authors used a singleton paradigm to investigate the effect of attention on nontarget objects. Participants made a speeded feature discrimination of a target for which the response was either compatible or incompatible with an irrelevant feature dimension of a distractor. The results show that the irrelevant distractor features were processed to the point that they interfered with the response to the target. The response compatibility effect was observed even when the location of the target or the distractor was invariant, although it was much weaker when both locations were invariant. These results demonstrate that in many circumstances, an attended distractor is completely selected and fully processed, and the complete processing of distractors depends on a number of factors, many of which are related to the strength of attention to the distractor.

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“…Attentional Bias Development Although there has been great debate on how visual stimuli are selected for further processing (Theeuwes, 1991;1992;Belopolsky & Theeuwes, 2010;Folk et al, 1992;Bacon & Egeth, 1994), one generally accepted proposal is that observers can activate one of two distinctive attentional sets:…”

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“…Alternatively, Feature Search Mode relies on a defining target feature -such as a particular colour -and is a much narrower attentional set that results in a reduction of interference from salient objects that do not share the defining target feature. Of the two search modes,Singleton Detection Mode appears to be the default setting (Bacon & Egeth, 1994;Kawahara, 2010).Persistently engaging Feature Search Mode for a specific stimulus characteristic can be thought of as tantamount to an attentional bias towards that characteristic. In other words, an attentional bias towards a specific stimulus or stimuli characteristic is akin to an individual's attention system being uncontrollably and chronically set to a specific type of Feature Search Mode, prioritising corresponding items for further processing and thus ensuring that they capture attention over other available items.…”

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Altering attentional control settings causes persistent biases of visual attention

Knight

Smith

Knight

et al. 2016

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

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. (2015) 'Altering attentional control settings causes persistent biases of visual attention.', The quarterly journal of experimental psychology., 69 (1). pp. 129-149.Further information on publisher's website:https://doi.org/10. 1080/17470218.2015.1031144 Publisher's copyright statement:This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor Francis in the quarterly journal of experimental psychology. on 13/05/2015 available online:http://www.tandfonline.com/10. 1080/17470218.2015.1031144 Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. arbitrary stimulus in healthy participants. Subjects were biased towards the colour green by an information sheet. Attentional bias was assessed using a change detection task. After an interval of either 1 or 2 weeks participants were then either re-tested on the same change detection task, tested on a different change detection task where colour was irrelevant, or were biased towards an alternative colour. One experiment included trials in which the distracter stimuli (but never the target stimuli) were green. The key finding was that green stimuli in the second task attracted attention, despite this impairing task performance. Furthermore, inducing a second attentional bias did not override the initial bias toward green objects. The attentional bias also persisted for at least two weeks. It is argued that this persistent attentional bias is mediated by a chronic change to participants attentional control settings, which is aided by long-term representations involving contextual cuing. We speculate that similar changes to attentional control settings and continuous cuing may relate to attentional biases observed in psychopathologies. Targeting these biases may be a productive approach to treatment.Attentional Bias Development Although there has been great debate on how visual stimuli are selected for further processing (Theeuwes, 1991;1992;Belopolsky & Theeuwes, 2010;Folk et al., 1992;Bacon & Egeth, 1994), one generally accepted proposal is that observers can activate one of two distinctive attentional sets:Attentional Bias Development 5Singleton Detection Mode or Feature Search Mode (Bacon & Egeth, 1994; Leber & Egeth, 2006b).Singleton Detection Mode is based purely on the physical salience of an item, allowing the most salient item in a visual field -such as a feature singleton (a red item amongst greyscale items) -to capture attention. Alternatively, Feature Search Mode relies on a defining target feature -such as a particular colour -and is a much narrower attentional se...

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Overriding stimulus-driven attentional capture

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The Role of Stimulus-Driven and Goal-Driven Control in Saccadic Visual Selection.

The Role of Stimulus-Driven and Goal-Driven Control in Saccadic Visual Selection.

When does visual attention select all features of a distractor?

Altering attentional control settings causes persistent biases of visual attention

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