A Critique of the Attentional Window Account of Capture Failures

There has been a lengthy debate about whether salient stimuli have the power to automatically capture attention, even when entirely task irrelevant. Theeuwes (2022) has suggested that an attentional window account could explain why capture is observed in some studies, but not others. According to th...

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Main Authors: Nicholas Gaspelin, Howard E. Egeth, Steven J. Luck
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2023-07-01
Series:Journal of Cognition
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Online Access:https://account.journalofcognition.org/index.php/up-j-jc/article/view/270