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_id: '6090'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Comments on an article by Jan Theeuwes (see record [rid]2010-20897-002[/rid]).
    Theeuwes summarizes an impressive number of studies demonstrating interference
    by irrelevant visual singletons in computer experiments with humans. Theeuwes
    assumes that this salience-driven capture of attention is fast and occurs within
    150 ms since singleton onset, during the feed-forward phase of visual processing.
    In contrast to Theeuwes, we think that top–down contingent capture is the rule
    and explains initial and fast attention capture effects in the first feed-forward
    phase of visual processing. During a later phase and under some conditions exogenous
    capture of attention possibly follows. At the same time, we propose that the evidence
    presented by Theeuwes fails to support exogenous orienting because it fails to
    exclude a top–down contingent capture explanation. We present our arguments in
    two sections. One major source of evidence for top–down controlled attentional
    capture during the feed-forward
author:
- first_name: Ulrich
  full_name: Ansorge, Ulrich
  last_name: Ansorge
- first_name: Gernot
  full_name: Horstmann, Gernot
  last_name: Horstmann
- first_name: Ingrid
  full_name: Scharlau, Ingrid
  id: '451'
  last_name: Scharlau
  orcid: 0000-0003-2364-9489
citation:
  ama: Ansorge U, Horstmann G, Scharlau I. Top–down contingent attentional capture
    during feed-forward visual processing. <i>Acta Psychologica</i>. 2010;135(2):123-126.
  apa: Ansorge, U., Horstmann, G., &#38; Scharlau, I. (2010). Top–down contingent
    attentional capture during feed-forward visual processing. <i>Acta Psychologica</i>,
    <i>135</i>(2), 123–126.
  bibtex: '@article{Ansorge_Horstmann_Scharlau_2010, title={Top–down contingent attentional
    capture during feed-forward visual processing.}, volume={135}, number={2}, journal={Acta
    Psychologica}, author={Ansorge, Ulrich and Horstmann, Gernot and Scharlau, Ingrid},
    year={2010}, pages={123–126} }'
  chicago: 'Ansorge, Ulrich, Gernot Horstmann, and Ingrid Scharlau. “Top–down Contingent
    Attentional Capture during Feed-Forward Visual Processing.” <i>Acta Psychologica</i>
    135, no. 2 (2010): 123–26.'
  ieee: U. Ansorge, G. Horstmann, and I. Scharlau, “Top–down contingent attentional
    capture during feed-forward visual processing.,” <i>Acta Psychologica</i>, vol.
    135, no. 2, pp. 123–126, 2010.
  mla: Ansorge, Ulrich, et al. “Top–down Contingent Attentional Capture during Feed-Forward
    Visual Processing.” <i>Acta Psychologica</i>, vol. 135, no. 2, 2010, pp. 123–26.
  short: U. Ansorge, G. Horstmann, I. Scharlau, Acta Psychologica 135 (2010) 123–126.
date_created: 2018-12-10T07:08:08Z
date_updated: 2022-06-07T00:17:51Z
department:
- _id: '424'
intvolume: '       135'
issue: '2'
keyword:
- visual selection
- attention
- information
- visual field
- brain
- Attention
- Humans
- Models
- Psychological
- Visual Perception
- Volition
- Brain
- Visual Field
- Visual Perception
- Visual Attention
- Information
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://kw.uni-paderborn.de/fileadmin/fakultaet/Institute/psychologie/Kognitive_Psychologie/Publikationen/AHSActa2011.pdf
oa: '1'
page: 123 - 126
publication: Acta Psychologica
publication_identifier:
  issn:
  - 0001-6918
publication_status: published
status: public
title: Top–down contingent attentional capture during feed-forward visual processing.
type: journal_article
user_id: '42165'
volume: 135
year: '2010'
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