Stimulus-driven attentional capture : evidence from equiluminant visual objects.

Author(s)
Yantis, S. & Hillstrom, A.P.
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Abstract

Previous work has shown that abrupt visual onsets capture attention. Possible mechanisms for this phenomenon include: (a) a luminance-change detection system and (b) a mechanism that detects the appearance of new perceptual objects. Experiments 1 and 2 revealed that attention is captured in visual search by the appearance of a new perceptual object even when the object is equiluminant with its background and thus exhibits no luminance change when it appears. Experiment 3 showed that a highly salient limunance increment alone is not sufficient to capture attention. These findings suggest that attentional capture is mediated by a mechanisms that detects the appearance of new perceptual objects.

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941885 ST [electronic version only]
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Journal of Experimental Psychology : Human Perception and Performance, Vol. 20 (1994), No. 1 (February), p. 95-107, 46 ref.

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