Attention reading

Question 1

What does Steven et al. (2021) show about attentional capture?

Answer 1

physical salient stimuli = generate priority signal where in the absence of specific attentional control settings = automatically capture the attention

Question 2

What does Yantis and Jonides (1984) show about attentional capture?

Answer 2

Abrupt onset activate visual channels sensitive to change automatically. Link between mechanism specialised for detraction of onsets + properties of the visual system

2 salient features = colour and intensity cannot capture attention

Attentional capture = unique to stimuli not difference from the background

Question 3

What does Folk et al. (1994) show?

Answer 3

Motion will capture attention = only when tasks monitoring for dynamic discontinuity

Saw 100% of invalid motion precues interfered w/ the processing of interference but not onset or colour targets.

Question 4

What does Bacon and Egeth (1994) show about attentional capture?

Answer 4

Found goal-directed selection of specific known featural identity override stimulus-driven capture caused by salient singletons

consistent with contingent involuntary orientating hypothesis = stimulus-driven capture of attention depends on attentional control settings

Feature-specific top-down information is indeed to guide attention potential targets, thus avoiding distraction from irrelevant singletons = not used when salience alone can adequately solve the
task.

Question 5

What does Anderson(2011 show about value-driven attentional capture ?

Answer 5

Attentional capture = reward-related stimuli = involuntarily + persistent captured attention bc of associations learnt during learning

Question 5

What does Anderson(2011 show about value-driven attentional capture ?

Answer 5

Attentional capture = reward-related stimuli = involuntarily + persistent captured attention bc of associations learnt during learning