The time course of salience: not entirely caused by salience

A. Krüger, I. Scharlau, Psychological Research (2021).

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Visual salience is a key component of attentional selection, the process that guards the scarce resources needed for conscious recognition and perception. In previous works, we proposed a measure of visual salience based on a formal theory of visual selection. However, the strength of visual salience depends on the time course as well as local physical contrasts. Evidence from multiple experimental designs in the literature suggests that the strength of salience rises initially and declines after approximately 150 ms. The present article amends the theory-based salience measure beyond local physical contrasts to the time course of salience. It does so through a first experiment which reveals that—contrary to expectations—salience is not reduced during the first 150 ms after onset. Instead, the overall visual processing capacity is severely reduced, which corresponds to a reduced processing speed of all stimuli in the visual field. A second experiment confirms this conclusion by replicating the result. We argue that the slower stimulus processing may have been overlooked previously because the attentional selection mechanism had not yet been modeled in studies on the time course of salience.
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Krüger A, Scharlau I. The time course of salience: not entirely caused by salience. Psychological Research. Published online 2021. doi:10.1007/s00426-020-01470-6
Krüger, A., & Scharlau, I. (2021). The time course of salience: not entirely caused by salience. Psychological Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01470-6
@article{Krüger_Scharlau_2021, title={The time course of salience: not entirely caused by salience}, DOI={10.1007/s00426-020-01470-6}, journal={Psychological Research}, author={Krüger, Alexander and Scharlau, Ingrid}, year={2021} }
Krüger, Alexander, and Ingrid Scharlau. “The Time Course of Salience: Not Entirely Caused by Salience.” Psychological Research, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00426-020-01470-6.
A. Krüger and I. Scharlau, “The time course of salience: not entirely caused by salience,” Psychological Research, 2021, doi: 10.1007/s00426-020-01470-6.
Krüger, Alexander, and Ingrid Scharlau. “The Time Course of Salience: Not Entirely Caused by Salience.” Psychological Research, 2021, doi:10.1007/s00426-020-01470-6.

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