Automaticity and the capture of attention by a peripheral display change Export

@article{citeulike:5942616, abstract = {Abstract\ \ The proposal that peripheral visual changes (cues) tend to summon attention automatically was tested by studying the effect of peripheral cueing on simple detection latency. Delay between cue onset and target onset, the contingent relationship between cue location and target location, and instructions to subjects were manipulated. Results showed that a peripheral display change could capture attention even when the target was far more likely to appear at an uncued location. When subjects were explicitly informed that targets were likely to appear away from the cued location they were able to suppress this effect, but were unable completely to reverse it by rapidly orienting attention towards the uncued side. Hence the process appears to be automatic in the sense that it occurs unless there are explicit instructions to the contrary. With explicit instructions the processing operation can be suppressed, but not completely reversed.}, author = {Lambert, Anthony and Spencer, Edward and Mohindra, Naresh}, citeulike-article-id = {5942616}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02686618}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.springerlink.com/content/b48j7l714764366t}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1007/BF02686618}, journal = {Current Psychology}, keywords = {attention, capture, display, peripheral}, month = {June}, number = {2}, pages = {136--147}, posted-at = {2009-10-15 09:19:18}, priority = {3}, title = {Automaticity and the capture of attention by a peripheral display change}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02686618}, volume = {6}, year = {1987} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5942616 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5942616 N2 - Abstract  The proposal that peripheral visual changes (cues) tend to summon attention automatically was tested by studying the effect of peripheral cueing on simple detection latency. Delay between cue onset and target onset, the contingent relationship between cue location and target location, and instructions to subjects were manipulated. Results showed that a peripheral display change could capture attention even when the target was far more likely to appear at an uncued location. When subjects were explicitly informed that targets were likely to appear away from the cued location they were able to suppress this effect, but were unable completely to reverse it by rapidly orienting attention towards the uncued side. Hence the process appears to be automatic in the sense that it occurs unless there are explicit instructions to the contrary. With explicit instructions the processing operation can be suppressed, but not completely reversed. IS - 2 JF - Current Psychology EP - 147 TI - Automaticity and the capture of attention by a peripheral display change VL - 6 SP - 136 KW - attention KW - capture KW - display KW - peripheral AU - Lambert, Anthony AU - Spencer, Edward AU - Mohindra, Naresh PY - 1987/06/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02686618 ER -