Unconscious pop-out: attentional capture by unseen feature singletons only when top-down attention is available

Visual pop-out occurs when a unique visual target (e.g., a feature singleton) is present in a set of homogeneous distractors. However, the role of visual awareness in this process remains unclear. In the experiments reported here, we showed that even though subjects were not aware of a suppressed po...

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Main Authors: Hsieh, Po-Jang, Colas, Jaron T., Kanwisher, Nancy
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Association for Psychological Science 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70901
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3853-7885