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A meta-analysis of contingent-capture effects.
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- Measuring conscious perception interferes with the allocation of attention to distractors.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Exploring boundary conditions of goal-driven attentional capture by affective categories: the role of prioritisation in working memory.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Priming of pop-out in the spatial-cueing paradigm.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- The role of inhibition in the processing of peripheral cues.Psychological research · 2025Article
- Swift attenuation of irrelevant features through feature consistency: Evidence from a capture-probe version of the contingent-capture protocol.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2024Article
- Top-down suppression of negative features applies flexibly contingent on visual search goals.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- Control over attentional capture within 170 ms by long-term memory control settings: Evidence from the N2pc.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2024Article
- Search mode, not the attentional window, determines the magnitude of attentional capture.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- 10 Hz rhythmic stimulation modulates electrophysiological, but not behavioral markers of suppression.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Novel evidence for cue-based retrieval of top-down sets in spatial cueing.Frontiers in cognition · 2024Article
- Contingent capture by color is sensitive to categorical color perception.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- Top-down knowledge surpasses selection history in influencing attentional guidance.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
- Investigating attentional control sets: Evidence for the compilation of multi-feature control sets.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
- The role of visual working memory capacity in attention capture among video game players.Psychological research · 2022Article
- Spatial cueing effects do not always index attentional capture: evidence for a priority accumulation framework.Psychological research · 2022Article
- Does feature intertrial priming guide attention? The jury is still out.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2022Review
- Do Subliminal Fearful Facial Expressions Capture Attention?Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Attention driven phantom vision: measuring the sensory strength of attentional templates and their relation to visual mental imagery and aphantasia.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Getting it right from the start: Attentional control settings without a history of target selection.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2021Article
- Statistical regularities cause attentional suppression with target-matching distractors.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2021Article
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Abstract
The present meta-analyses investigated the widely used contingent-capture protocol. Contingent-capture theory postulates that only top-down matching stimuli capture attention. Evidence comes from the contingent-capture protocol, in which participants search for a predefined target stimulus preceded by a spatial cue. The cue is typically uninformative of the target's position but either presented at target position (valid condition) or away from the target (invalid condition). The common finding is that seemingly only top-down matching cues capture attention as shown by a selective cueing effect (faster responses in valid than invalid conditions) for cues with a feature similar to the searched-for target only, but not for cues without target-similar feature. The origin of this "contingent-capture effect" is, however, debated. One alternative explanation is that intertrial priming-the priming of attention capture by the cue in a given trial by attending to a feature-similar target in the preceding trial-mediates the contingent-capture effect. Alternatively, the rapid-disengagement account argues that all salient stimuli capture attention initially, but that the disengagement from non-matching cues is rapid. The present meta-analyses shed light on this debate by (a) identifying moderators of the size of reported contingent-capture effects (64 experiments) and (b) analyzing pure (blocked) versus mixed presentation of different targets as well as summarizing results of published intertrial priming studies (12 experiments) in the contingent-capture protocol. We found target-singleton versus non-singleton status and pure versus mixed presentation of different targets to be reliable moderators. Furthermore, results indicated the presence of publication bias. Otherwise, the contingent-capture theory was supported, but we discuss additional factors that must be taken into account for a full account of the results.
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