ArticleAttention, perception & psychophysics2023
Oculomotor suppression of abrupt onsets versus color singletons.
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- Rapid Inversion of Singleton Distractor Representations Underlies Learned Attentional Suppression.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Rapid inversion of singleton distractor representations underlies learned attentional suppression.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Dissociable Pupil and Oculomotor Markers of Attention Allocation and Distractor Suppression during Listening.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
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- Signal suppression 2.0: An updated account of attentional capture and suppression.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Review
- Behavioural and electrophysiological modulations of onset primacy in visual change detection.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- Are abrupt onsets highly salient?Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2025Article
- An event-related potential study of onset primacy in visual change detection.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- Unpredictable singleton distractors in visual search can be subject to second-order suppression.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2025Article
- Attentional capture by abrupt onsets: Foundations and emerging issues.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2025Review
- 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
- High visual salience of alert signals can lead to a counterintuitive increase of reaction times.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- How Does Mind-Wandering Affect Distractor Suppression?Visual cognition · 2024Article
- Does attentional suppression occur at the level of perception or decision-making? Evidence from Gaspelin et al.'s (2015) probe letter task.Psychological research · 2023Article
- Age-related differences in frontoparietal activation for target and distractor singletons during visual search.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
- A Critique of the Attentional Window Account of Capture Failures.Journal of cognition · 2023Article
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Abstract
There is considerable evidence that salient items can be suppressed in order to prevent attentional capture. However, this evidence has relied almost exclusively on paradigms using color singletons as salient distractors. It is therefore unclear whether other kinds of salient stimuli, such as abrupt onsets, can also be suppressed. Using an additional singleton paradigm optimized for detecting oculomotor suppression, we directly compared color singletons with abrupt onsets. Participants searched for a target shape (e.g., green diamond) and attempted to ignore salient distractors that were either abrupt onsets or color singletons. First eye movements were used to assess whether salient distractors captured attention or were instead suppressed. Initial experiments using a type of abrupt onset from classic attentional capture studies (four white dots) revealed that abrupt onsets strongly captured attention whereas color singletons were suppressed. After controlling for important differences between the onsets and color singletons - such as luminance and color - abrupt-onset capture was reduced but not eliminated. We ultimately conclude that abrupt onsets are not suppressed like color singletons.
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