The Attentional Capture Debate: When Can We Avoid Salient Distractors and When Not?

• Published in: Journal of cognition Vol. 6; no. 1; p. 35
• Main Author: Theeuwes, Jan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Ubiquity Press 06.07.2023
• Subjects: attention; learning; visual search; Learning; Visual search; Attention

There has been a long-standing debate concerning whether we are able to resist attention capture by salient distractors. The so-called "signal suppression hypothesis" of Gaspelin and Luck (2018) claimed to have resolved this debate. According to this view, salient stimuli "naturally a...