Automatic Attraction of Visual Attention by Supraletter Features of Former Target Strings
Observers were trained to search for a particular horizontal string of 3 capital letters presented among similar strings consisting of exactly the same letters in different orders. The training was followed by a test in which the observers searched for a new target that was identical to one of the f...
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| author | Søren eKyllingsbæk Sven eVan Lommel Thomas Alrik Sørensen Claus eBundesen |
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| description | Observers were trained to search for a particular horizontal string of 3 capital letters presented among similar strings consisting of exactly the same letters in different orders. The training was followed by a test in which the observers searched for a new target that was identical to one of the former distractors. The new distractor set consisted of the remaining former distractors plus the former target. On each trial, three letter-strings were displayed, which included the target string with a probability of .5. In Experiment 1, the strings were centered at different locations on the circumference of an imaginary circle around the fixation point. The training phase of Experiment 2 was similar, but in the test phase of the experiment, the strings were located in a vertical array centered on fixation, and in target-present arrays, the target always appeared at fixation. In both experiments, performance (d’) degraded on trials in which former targets were present, suggesting that the former targets automatically drew processing resources away from the current targets. Apparently, the two experiments showed automatic attraction of visual attention by supraletter features of former target strings. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b05eff4853dc4098882441202370bb852022-12-22T03:34:27ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782014-11-01510.3389/fpsyg.2014.01383113269Automatic Attraction of Visual Attention by Supraletter Features of Former Target StringsSøren eKyllingsbæk0Sven eVan Lommel1Thomas Alrik Sørensen2Claus eBundesen3University of CopenhagenKU Leuven - University of LeuvenAalborg UniversityUniversity of CopenhagenObservers were trained to search for a particular horizontal string of 3 capital letters presented among similar strings consisting of exactly the same letters in different orders. The training was followed by a test in which the observers searched for a new target that was identical to one of the former distractors. The new distractor set consisted of the remaining former distractors plus the former target. On each trial, three letter-strings were displayed, which included the target string with a probability of .5. In Experiment 1, the strings were centered at different locations on the circumference of an imaginary circle around the fixation point. The training phase of Experiment 2 was similar, but in the test phase of the experiment, the strings were located in a vertical array centered on fixation, and in target-present arrays, the target always appeared at fixation. In both experiments, performance (d’) degraded on trials in which former targets were present, suggesting that the former targets automatically drew processing resources away from the current targets. Apparently, the two experiments showed automatic attraction of visual attention by supraletter features of former target strings.http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01383/fullAttentionVisual Perceptionvisual searchCaptureletters |
| spellingShingle | Søren eKyllingsbæk Sven eVan Lommel Thomas Alrik Sørensen Claus eBundesen Automatic Attraction of Visual Attention by Supraletter Features of Former Target Strings Frontiers in Psychology Attention Visual Perception visual search Capture letters |
| title | Automatic Attraction of Visual Attention by Supraletter Features of Former Target Strings |
| title_full | Automatic Attraction of Visual Attention by Supraletter Features of Former Target Strings |
| title_fullStr | Automatic Attraction of Visual Attention by Supraletter Features of Former Target Strings |
| title_full_unstemmed | Automatic Attraction of Visual Attention by Supraletter Features of Former Target Strings |
| title_short | Automatic Attraction of Visual Attention by Supraletter Features of Former Target Strings |
| title_sort | automatic attraction of visual attention by supraletter features of former target strings |
| topic | Attention Visual Perception visual search Capture letters |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01383/full |
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