Trial reportAttention, perception & psychophysics2020
Flexible weighting of target features based on distractor context.
Trial report in Attention, perception & psychophysics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Flexibility of internal attention: divergent spatiotemporal profiles for feature and object cueing.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2026Article
- Attention to object categories: Selection history determines the breadth of attentional tuning during real-world object search.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2024Article
- Task-adaptive changes to the target template in response to distractor context: Separability versus similarity.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2024Article
- Expected distractor context biases the attentional template for target shapes.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2023Article
- Attentional priority is determined by predicted feature distributions.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2022Article
- Feature similarity is non-linearly related to attentional selection: Evidence from visual search and sustained attention tasks.Journal of vision · 2022Article
- Functional biases in attentional templates from associative memory.Journal of vision · 2020Article
- Major issues in the study of visual search: Part 2 of "40 Years of Feature Integration: Special Issue in Memory of Anne Treisman".Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2020Article
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Abstract
Models of attention posit that attentional priority is established by summing the saliency and relevancy signals from feature-selective maps. The dimension-weighting account further hypothesizes that information from each feature-selective map is weighted based on expectations of how informative each dimension will be. In the current studies, we investigated the question of whether attentional biases to the features of a conjunction target (color and orientation) differ when one dimension is expected to be more diagnostic of the target. In a series of color-orientation conjunction search tasks, observers saw an exact cue for the upcoming target, while the probability of distractors sharing a target feature in each dimension was manipulated. In one context, distractors were more likely to share the target color, and in another, distractors were more likely to share the target orientation. The results indicated that despite an overall bias toward color, attentional priority to each target feature was flexibly adjusted according to distractor context: RT and accuracy performance was better when the diagnostic feature was expected than unexpected. This occurred both when the distractor context was learned implicitly and explicitly. These results suggest that feature-based enhancement can occur selectively for the dimension expected to be most informative in distinguishing the target from distractors.
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