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

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 resor...

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Published inVisual cognition Vol. 29; no. 9; pp. 600 - 603
Main Authors Liesefeld, Heinrich R., Liesefeld, Anna M., Müller, Hermann J.
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LanguageEnglish
Published Hove Routledge 21.10.2021
Taylor & Francis Ltd
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clump scanning
dimension weighting account
priority guidance
search modes
Visual distraction
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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).
AbstractList 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).
Author Liesefeld, Anna M.
Müller, Hermann J.
Liesefeld, Heinrich R.
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