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- Title
Attentional capture decreases when distractors remain visible during rapid serial visual presentations.
- Authors
Inukai, Tomoe; Kumada, Takatsune; Kawahara, Jun-Ichiro
- Abstract
The identification of a central visual target is impaired by the onset of a peripheral distractor. This impairment is said to occur because attentional focus is diverted to the peripheral distractor. We examined whether distractor offset would enhance or reduce attentional capture by manipulating the duration of the distractor. Observers identified a color singleton among a rapid stream of homogeneous nontargets. Peripheral distractors disappeared 43 or 172 msec after onset (the short- and long-duration conditions, respectively). Identification accuracy was greater in the long-duration condition than in the short-duration condition. The same pattern of results was obtained when participants identified a target of a designated color among heterogeneous nontargets when the color of the distractor was the same as that of the target. These findings suggest that attentional capture consists of stimulus onset and offset, both of which are susceptible to top-down attentional set.
- Subjects
ATTENTION; DISTRACTION; HUMAN information processing; SENSORY perception; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Attention, Perception & Psychophysics, 2010, Vol 72, Issue 4, p939
- ISSN
1943-3921
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/APP.72.4.939