Temporal attentional capture: effects of irrelevant singletons on rapid serial visual search

Dalton, Polly and Lavie, Nilli

(2006)

Dalton, Polly and Lavie, Nilli (2006) Temporal attentional capture: effects of irrelevant singletons on rapid serial visual search. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 13 (5).

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Abstract

The presence of a unique yet irrelevant singleton in visual search or spatial-cuing tasks is typically associated with performance costs, suggesting that singletons tend to capture attention. However, since singletons have always been spatially separated from targets in previous experiments, it remains unclear whether an irrelevant visual singleton that occurs at the same spatial location as the target but at a different point in time can produce temporal capture of attention. Here, we asked participants to search visual sequences at fixation for targets defined by size (larger or smaller than the nontargets). The presence (vs. absence) of a color singleton lengthened response times on the size discrimination task, suggesting that irrelevant singletons can lead to a temporal attentional capture.

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Item TypeJournal Article
TitleTemporal attentional capture: effects of irrelevant singletons on rapid serial visual search
AuthorsDalton, Polly
Lavie, Nilli
Uncontrolled KeywordsAdolescent, Adult, Attention, Color Perception, Cues, Discrimination Learning, Female, Fixation, Ocular, Humans, Male, Orientation, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Probability Learning, Reaction Time, Serial Learning, Size Perception
DepartmentsFaculty of Science\Psychology

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