The PD Reflects Selection of Nontarget Locations, Not Distractor Suppression

D Kerzel, S Huynh Cong - Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
In visual search tasks, negative features provide information about stimuli that can be
excluded from search. It has been shown that these negative features help participants to …

The specificity of feature-based attentional guidance is equivalent under single-and dual-target search.

RS Williams, S Ferber, J Pratt - Journal of Experimental Psychology …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Individuals actively maintain attentional templates to prioritize target-matching inputs. While
previous works have established that multiple templates can be held simultaneously, current …

Swift attenuation of irrelevant features through feature consistency: Evidence from a capture-probe version of the contingent-capture protocol

C Büsel, C Maria Seiz, A Hoffmann… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
In the present two experiments, we explore the possibility of swift attenuation of capture by
irrelevant features in the contingent-capture protocol. Some prior research suggests that …

Attentional Templates in Context: Understanding the Tuning of Target Features During High-Versus Low-Similarity Search

RS Williams - 2024 - search.proquest.com
In this dissertation, I investigate the phenomenon of attentional sharpening, wherein, difficult
target-nontarget discriminations are more efficient when frequently made, compared to when …