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@article{citeulike:3874533, abstract = {Models of attentional selection are based on either stimulus-driven or goal-directed processes. Support for the latter comes from a study showing that a salient singleton in a search display can be ignored when the target has a different defining feature (Kumada, 1999). We show that this finding holds only when the target and the nonsalient distractors are highly dissimilar from one another. When the target and the distractors are made more similar, whilst ensuring that the target still pops out of the display, the salient distractor can no longer be ignored. This outcome is consistent with predictions from stimulus-driven accounts. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved).}, author = {Poiese, P. and Spalek, T. M. and Di Lollo, V.}, citeulike-article-id = {3874533}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/1196-1961.62.4.233}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19071990}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19071990}, doi = {10.1037/1196-1961.62.4.233}, issn = {1196-1961}, journal = {Canadian journal of experimental psychology = Revue canadienne de psychologie exp\'{e}rimentale}, keywords = {capture, search, singleton}, month = {December}, number = {4}, pages = {233--236}, posted-at = {2009-01-11 17:30:51}, priority = {2}, title = {Attentional capture by a salient distractor in visual search: The effect of target-distractor similarity.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/1196-1961.62.4.233}, volume = {62}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3874533 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3874533 N2 - Models of attentional selection are based on either stimulus-driven or goal-directed processes. Support for the latter comes from a study showing that a salient singleton in a search display can be ignored when the target has a different defining feature (Kumada, 1999). We show that this finding holds only when the target and the nonsalient distractors are highly dissimilar from one another. When the target and the distractors are made more similar, whilst ensuring that the target still pops out of the display, the salient distractor can no longer be ignored. This outcome is consistent with predictions from stimulus-driven accounts. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2008 APA, all rights reserved). IS - 4 JF - Canadian journal of experimental psychology = Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale SN - 1196-1961 EP - 236 TI - Attentional capture by a salient distractor in visual search: The effect of target-distractor similarity. VL - 62 SP - 233 KW - capture KW - search KW - singleton AU - Poiese, P AU - Spalek, TM AU - Di Lollo, V PY - 2008/12// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/1196-1961.62.4.233 ER -