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

• Published in: Visual cognition Vol. 29; no. 9; pp. 600 - 603
• Main Authors: Liesefeld, Heinrich R., Liesefeld, Anna M., Müller, Hermann J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hove Routledge 21.10.2021; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: clump scanning; dimension weighting account; priority guidance; search modes; Visual distraction

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...