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@article{citeulike:5952107, abstract = {We investigated the roles of top-down task set and bottom-up stimulus salience for feature-specific attentional capture. Spatially nonpredictive cues preceded search arrays that included a color-defined target. For target-color singleton cues, behavioral spatial cueing effects were accompanied by cue-induced N2pc components, indicative of attentional capture. These effects were only minimally attenuated for nonsingleton target-color cues, underlining the dominance of top-down task set over salience in attentional capture. Nontarget-color singleton cues triggered no N2pc, but instead an anterior N2 component indicative of top-down inhibition. In Experiment 2, inverted behavioral cueing effects of these cues were accompanied by a delayed N2pc to targets at cued locations, suggesting that perceptually salient but task-irrelevant visual events trigger location-specific inhibition mechanisms that can delay subsequent target selection.}, author = {Eimer, Martin and Kiss, Monika and Press, Clare and Sauter, Disa}, citeulike-article-id = {5952107}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0015872}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19803639}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=19803639}, doi = {10.1037/a0015872}, issn = {1939-1277}, journal = {Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance}, keywords = {attention, capture, erp}, month = {October}, number = {5}, pages = {1316--1328}, posted-at = {2009-10-16 16:42:41}, priority = {4}, title = {The roles of feature-specific task set and bottom-up salience in attentional capture: an ERP study.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0015872}, volume = {35}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:5952107 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5952107 N2 - We investigated the roles of top-down task set and bottom-up stimulus salience for feature-specific attentional capture. Spatially nonpredictive cues preceded search arrays that included a color-defined target. For target-color singleton cues, behavioral spatial cueing effects were accompanied by cue-induced N2pc components, indicative of attentional capture. These effects were only minimally attenuated for nonsingleton target-color cues, underlining the dominance of top-down task set over salience in attentional capture. Nontarget-color singleton cues triggered no N2pc, but instead an anterior N2 component indicative of top-down inhibition. In Experiment 2, inverted behavioral cueing effects of these cues were accompanied by a delayed N2pc to targets at cued locations, suggesting that perceptually salient but task-irrelevant visual events trigger location-specific inhibition mechanisms that can delay subsequent target selection. IS - 5 JF - Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance SN - 1939-1277 EP - 1328 TI - The roles of feature-specific task set and bottom-up salience in attentional capture: an ERP study. VL - 35 SP - 1316 KW - attention KW - capture KW - erp AU - Eimer, Martin AU - Kiss, Monika AU - Press, Clare AU - Sauter, Disa PY - 2009/10// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0015872 ER -