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von Mühlenen, Adrian and Conci, Markus (2009) Top-down influences on attentional capture by color changes. Psychological Research, Vol.73 (No.2). pp. 244-253. doi:10.1007/s00426-008-0216-9 ISSN 0340-0727.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00426-008-0216-9
Abstract
Previous studies have shown that a change in an existing object is not as effective in capturing attention as the appearance of a new object. This view was recently challenged by Lu and Zhou (Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 12:567-572, 2005), who found strong capture effects for an object changing its color. We suspected that this finding critically depends on a procedural particularity in Lu and Zhou's study, namely that the color of the unique item and the color of the no-unique items randomly switched between trials. In the current study we replicate Lu and Zhou's capture effect (Experiment 1) and show that no capture occurs when the color-to-stimuli assignment is fixed (Experiment 2). Two further experiments suggest that the capture effect in Experiment 1 is not because the unique item switched color (Experiment 3), but because all the no-unique items switched color (Experiment 4). The results are discussed considering top-down modulation and inter-trial priming effects.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Visual perception, Color vision, Color -- Psychological aspects, Attention | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Psychological Research | ||||
Publisher: | Springer | ||||
ISSN: | 0340-0727 | ||||
Official Date: | March 2009 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.73 | ||||
Number: | No.2 | ||||
Number of Pages: | 10 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 244-253 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1007/s00426-008-0216-9 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Funder: | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) | ||||
Grant number: | FOR481 (DFG) | ||||
Conference Paper Type: | Paper | ||||
Type of Event: | Conference |
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