2017
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2017.1365791
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The role of similarity in inattentional blindness: Selective enhancement, selective suppression, or both?

Abstract: When people selectively pay attention to one set of objects and ignore another, unexpected stimuli often go unnoticed. Noticing rates are higher when the unexpected object matches the features of the attended items and lower when it matches those of the ignored items. No prior studies have fully disentangled these aspects of similarity; in previous work, the unexpected object fell on a continuum between the attended and ignored objects, so increasing the similarity to one set of objects necessarily decreased i… Show more

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“…However, a consensus definition of attention has proven notoriously difficult to obtain, an issue that has undoubtedly complicated a clear understanding of IB. Among other definitions, some describe attention based on functional properties of enhancement or inhibition (Wood & Simons, 2017b); others through endogenous or exogenous mechanisms (van Boxtel et al, 2010), or via object-, feature-, or spatial-components (Koivisto et al, 2009). Perhaps the most common definition views attention as a goal-directed mechanism of selection (Nakayama & Martini, 2011).…”
Section: Defining Attentionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…However, a consensus definition of attention has proven notoriously difficult to obtain, an issue that has undoubtedly complicated a clear understanding of IB. Among other definitions, some describe attention based on functional properties of enhancement or inhibition (Wood & Simons, 2017b); others through endogenous or exogenous mechanisms (van Boxtel et al, 2010), or via object-, feature-, or spatial-components (Koivisto et al, 2009). Perhaps the most common definition views attention as a goal-directed mechanism of selection (Nakayama & Martini, 2011).…”
Section: Defining Attentionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In fact, when the degree of similarity between the critical stimulus and target is held constant, and only the relationship between the critical stimulus and distractor items is manipulated, findings suggest that the attention set effect is, at least in part, due to inhibition. An example comes from work by Wood and Simons (2017b). Participants were presented a subset of items that contained color information of both target items and the critical stimulus (checkerboards, see Figure 1).…”
Section: Theoretical Moderatorsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Several replications (e.g., Memmert, 2011) as well as adapted versions of this paradigm were used. Adaptations include different shapes and luminance of targets and/or distractors (Most, Scholl, Clifford, & Simons, 2005), different trial durations (18 seconds, Zhang, Yan, Zhang, Shi, & Zhu, 2017), different unexpected objects (Guo, You, & Li, 2016), different speed of the unexpected object (Kreitz, Furley, & Memmert, 2016), or different instructions (Wood & Simons, 2017).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Possibly the strongest evidence in support for the no dissociation view comes from work on inattentional blindness (Devue, Laloyaux, Feyers, Theeuwes & Bredart 2009;Mack & Rock, 1998;Most, 2010;Pitts, Martinez, & Hillyard, 2012;Schelonka, Graulty, Canseco-Gonzalez, & Pitts, 2017;Shafto & Pitts, 2015;Wood & Simons, 2017;Wood, 2019). In their experiments, Mack and Rock (1998) had observers monitor a centrally located cross and asked observers to identify which arm of the cross (vertical or horizontal) was longer (see Figure 1.9A).…”
Section: Inattentional Blindnessmentioning
confidence: 99%