Attentional capture: An ameliorable side-effect of searching for salient targets

Liesefeld, Heinrich R.; Liesefeld, Anna M. und Müller, Hermann J. (2021): Attentional capture: An ameliorable side-effect of searching for salient targets. In: Visual Cognition, Bd. 29, Nr. 9: S. 600-603

Abstract

This commentary highlights that some of the remaining discrepancies in the attentional-capture debate can be resolved by a simple assumption: observers do not use the priority map when this map is useless to solve the task. Rather, whenever search targets are known to be non-salient, observers resort to a previously postulated alternative search strategy for which (distractor) saliency signals are irrelevant. Equipped with this assumption, we trace thus-far unaccounted-for discrepancies between empirical studies on attentional capture back to specific design choices that affect relative target saliency (display density and non-target heterogeneity).

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Psychologie und Pädagogik > Department Psychologie
• Themengebiete: 100 Philosophie und Psychologie > 150 Psychologie
• ISSN: 1350-6285
• Sprache: Englisch