Task-irrelevant stimulus salience affects visual search☆ Export

@article{citeulike:4208255, abstract = {The relative contributions of stimulus salience and task-related goals in guiding attention remain an issue of debate. Several studies have demonstrated that top-down factors play an important role, as they often override capture by salient irrelevant objects. However, Yantis and Egeth [Yantis, S., \& Egeth, H. E. (1999). On the distinction between visual salience and stimulus-driven attentional capture. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25 , 661–676.] have made the more radical claim that salience plays no role in visual search unless the observer adopts an attentional set for singletons or ” singleton-detection mode”. We reexamine their claim while disentangling effects of stimulus salience from effects of attentional set and inter-trial repetition. The results show that stimulus salience guides attention even when salience is task irrelevant.}, author = {Lamy, Dominique and Zoaris, Loren}, citeulike-article-id = {4208255}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2009.03.007}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0042698909000790}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19289140}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19289140}, day = {13}, doi = {10.1016/j.visres.2009.03.007}, issn = {00426989}, journal = {Vision Research}, keywords = {capture, salience, singleton}, month = {June}, number = {11}, pages = {1472--1480}, posted-at = {2009-03-23 05:22:18}, priority = {1}, title = {Task-irrelevant stimulus salience affects visual search☆}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2009.03.007}, volume = {49}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:4208255 L3 - citeulike-article-id:4208255 N2 - The relative contributions of stimulus salience and task-related goals in guiding attention remain an issue of debate. Several studies have demonstrated that top-down factors play an important role, as they often override capture by salient irrelevant objects. However, Yantis and Egeth [Yantis, S., & Egeth, H. E. (1999). On the distinction between visual salience and stimulus-driven attentional capture. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 25 , 661–676.] have made the more radical claim that salience plays no role in visual search unless the observer adopts an attentional set for singletons or “singleton-detection mode”. We reexamine their claim while disentangling effects of stimulus salience from effects of attentional set and inter-trial repetition. The results show that stimulus salience guides attention even when salience is task irrelevant. IS - 11 JF - Vision Research SN - 00426989 EP - 1480 TI - Task-irrelevant stimulus salience affects visual search☆ VL - 49 SP - 1472 KW - capture KW - salience KW - singleton AU - Lamy, Dominique AU - Zoaris, Loren PY - 2009/06/13/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2009.03.007 ER -