Contextual and Temporal Constraints for Attentional Capture: Commentary on Theeuwes’ 2023 Review “The Attentional Capture Debate: When Can We Avoid Salient Distractors and when Not?”
Salient distractors demand our attention. Their salience, derived from intensity, relative contrast or learned relevance, captures our limited information capacity. This is typically an adaptive response as salient stimuli may require an immediate change in behaviour. However, sometimes apparent sal...
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Ubiquity Press
2023-07-01
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| Series: | Journal of Cognition |
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| Online Access: | https://account.journalofcognition.org/index.php/up-j-jc/article/view/274 |