Attentional capture by a color singleton is stronger at spatially relevant than irrelevant locations: Evidence from an ERP study

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuling Su ◽  
Wanyi Huang ◽  
Nan Yang ◽  
Ke Yan ◽  
Yulong Ding ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Capture ◽  
Color Singleton

scholarly journals Involuntary Attentional Capture is Determined by Task Set: Evidence from Event-related Brain Potentials

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (8) ◽  
pp. 1423-1433 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Eimer ◽  
Monika Kiss
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Capture ◽  
Alternative Interpretation ◽  
Color Singleton ◽  
Attentional Orienting ◽  
Brain Potentials ◽  
Task Set ◽  
Visual Objects ◽  
Current Task ◽  
Physically Identical

To find out whether attentional capture by irrelevant but salient visual objects is an exogenous bottom–up phenomenon, or can be modulated by current task set, two experiments were conducted where the N2pc component was measured as an electrophysiological marker of attentional selection in response to spatially uninformative color singleton cues that preceded target arrays. When observers had to report the orientation of a uniquely colored target bar among distractor bars (color task), behavioral spatial cueing effects were accompanied by an early cue-induced N2pc, indicative of rapid attentional capture by color singleton cues. In contrast, when they reported the orientation of target bars presented without distractors (onset task), no behavioral cueing effects were found and no early N2pc was triggered to physically identical cue arrays. Experiment 2 ruled out an alternative interpretation of these N2pc differences in terms of distractor inhibition. These results do not support previous claims that attentional capture is initially unaffected by top–down intention, and demonstrate the central role of task set in involuntary attentional orienting.

scholarly journals Concurrent Physical Effort Increases Attentional Capture by Salient-but-irrelevant Color Singleton

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (11) ◽  
pp. 1673
Author(s):  
Shinhae Ahn ◽  
Hyung-Bum Park ◽  
Weiwei Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Capture ◽  
Color Singleton ◽  
Physical Effort ◽  
Irrelevant Color

Surprise! An Unexpected Color Singleton Does Not Capture Attention in Visual Search

1998 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 176-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley S. Gibson ◽  
Yuhong Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Visual Search ◽  
Attentional Capture ◽  
Attentional Control ◽  
Present Experiment ◽  
Important Change ◽  
Pure Form ◽  
Color Singleton ◽  
Search Procedure ◽  
Highly Efficient ◽  
The Way

The existence of a pure form of stimulus-driven attentional control has been aligned exclusively with the existence of attentional capture. Unfortunately, there has been little evidence provided in support of attentional capture. The present study investigated whether the repeated failure to observe attentional capture might be due to the way in which attentional capture has been measured. A new visual search procedure was used to investigate whether attention would be captured by an initial and unexpected encounter with a color singleton. Despite this important change in procedure, the color singleton still did not capture attention. Further evidence showed that visual search for the color singleton could be highly efficient, but only after its relevance became established, and that the failure to observe capture in the present experiment was not due to other potentially detrimental effects of surprise. The present results suggest that new conceptions of stimulus-driven attentional control are required.

Attentional capture by salient color singleton distractors is modulated by top-down dimensional set.

2009 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hermann J. Müller ◽  
Thomas Geyer ◽  
Michael Zehetleitner ◽  
Joseph Krummenacher
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Capture ◽  
Color Singleton ◽  
Top Down

Evidence for Attentional Capture by a Surprising Color Singleton in Visual Search

2002 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 499-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gernot Horstmann
Keyword(s):  
Visual Search ◽  
Reaction Time ◽  
Target Letter ◽  
Attentional Capture ◽  
Search Task ◽  
Color Singleton ◽  
Conjunction Search ◽  
Feature Search ◽  
Set Size ◽  
And Performance

Three experiments were conducted to investigate whether surprising color singletons capture attention. Participants performed a visual search task in which a target letter had to be detected among distractor letters. Experiments 1 and 2 assessed accuracy as the dependent variable. In Experiment 1, the unannounced presentation of a color singleton 500 ms prior to the letters (and in the same position as the target letter) resulted in better performance than in the preceding conjunction search segment, in which no singleton was presented, and performance was as good in this surprise-singleton trial as in the following feature search segment, in which the singleton always coincided with the target. In contrast, no improvement was observed when the color singleton was presented simultaneously with the letters in Experiment 2, indicating that attentional capture occurred later in the surprise trial than in the feature search segment. In Experiment 3, set size was varied, and reaction time was the dependent variable. Reaction time depended on set size in the conjunction search segment, but not in the surprise trial nor in the feature search segment. The results of the three experiments support the view that surprising color singletons capture attention independently of a corresponding attentional set.

scholarly journals The Malleability of Attentional Capture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Han Zhang ◽  
Tessa Abagis ◽  
John Jonides
Keyword(s):  
Individual Differences ◽  
Attentional Capture ◽  
Visual Cognition ◽  
Color Singleton ◽  
Training Data ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Previous Trial ◽  
Attentional State ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
And Training

We suggest that consideration of trial-by-trial variations, individual differences, and training data will enrich the current framework in Luck et al. (2020). We consider whether attentional capture is modulated by trial-by-trial fluctuations of attentional state and experiences on the previous trial. We also consider whether individual differences may affect attentional capture while highlighting potential challenges in using the color-singleton task to measure individual differences. Finally, performance in the color-singleton task can be modified dramatically with practice but the underlying mechanisms are not entirely clear. Understanding the malleability of attentional capture may broaden the current framework and resolve outstanding questions. The version of record of this manuscript will be available in Visual Cognition (2021), https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2021.1915903

Familiarity Effects in Visual-Spatial Attentional Capture and Disengagement

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
James H. Neely ◽  
Matthew A. Thomas ◽  
Todd A. Kahan
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Capture ◽  
Visual Spatial
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