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@article{citeulike:3874532, abstract = {In the spatial blink paradigm, participants search for a target of a designated color in a rapidly presented stream of letters at fixation. Target identification is typically impaired if a peripheral distractor appears shortly before the target, inducing a spatial blink, but impairment is observed only when the distractor also shares the sought-for color. Such results reveal an important top-down influence on the capture of attention. In the present experiments, we examined the influence of the bottom-up transients associated with the appearance and disappearance of distractors in the spatial blink paradigm. Onsets and offsets alone are incapable of inducing a spatial blink, but we found that the presence of such transients did enhance the effects of target-color-matched distractors. The results reveal important synergistic interactions between top-down and bottom-up factors involved in attentional capture.}, author = {Du, Feng and Abrams, Richard A.}, citeulike-article-id = {3874532}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/PP.70.8.1489}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19064492}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19064492}, doi = {10.3758/PP.70.8.1489}, issn = {0031-5117}, journal = {Perception \& psychophysics}, keywords = {ab, capture, rsvp}, month = {November}, number = {8}, pages = {1489--1503}, posted-at = {2009-01-11 17:29:18}, priority = {4}, title = {Synergy of stimulus-driven salience and goal-directed prioritization: evidence from the spatial blink.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/PP.70.8.1489}, volume = {70}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3874532 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3874532 N2 - In the spatial blink paradigm, participants search for a target of a designated color in a rapidly presented stream of letters at fixation. Target identification is typically impaired if a peripheral distractor appears shortly before the target, inducing a spatial blink, but impairment is observed only when the distractor also shares the sought-for color. Such results reveal an important top-down influence on the capture of attention. In the present experiments, we examined the influence of the bottom-up transients associated with the appearance and disappearance of distractors in the spatial blink paradigm. Onsets and offsets alone are incapable of inducing a spatial blink, but we found that the presence of such transients did enhance the effects of target-color-matched distractors. The results reveal important synergistic interactions between top-down and bottom-up factors involved in attentional capture. IS - 8 JF - Perception & psychophysics SN - 0031-5117 EP - 1503 TI - Synergy of stimulus-driven salience and goal-directed prioritization: evidence from the spatial blink. VL - 70 SP - 1489 KW - ab KW - capture KW - rsvp AU - Du, Feng AU - Abrams, Richard PY - 2008/11// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/PP.70.8.1489 ER -