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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. Acta Psychologica. 2010;135(2):123-126.
apa: Ansorge, U., Horstmann, G., & Scharlau, I. (2010). Top–down contingent
attentional capture during feed-forward visual processing. Acta Psychologica,
135(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.” Acta Psychologica
135, no. 2 (2010): 123–26.'
ieee: U. Ansorge, G. Horstmann, and I. Scharlau, “Top–down contingent attentional
capture during feed-forward visual processing.,” Acta Psychologica, vol.
135, no. 2, pp. 123–126, 2010.
mla: Ansorge, Ulrich, et al. “Top–down Contingent Attentional Capture during Feed-Forward
Visual Processing.” Acta Psychologica, 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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