--- _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' ...