ArticleJournal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition2023
Assessing recoding accounts of negative attentional templates using behavior and eye tracking.
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- Effort expectation and strategic cue use in visual search.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- 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
- Why are some individuals better at using negative attentional templates to suppress distractors? Exploration of interindividual differences in cognitive control efficiency.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2024Article
- Top-down suppression of negative features applies flexibly contingent on visual search goals.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- Suppression on the basis of template for rejection is reactive: Evidence from human electrophysiology.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- Distinct mechanisms of attentional suppression: exploration of trait factors underlying cued- and learned-suppression.Cognitive research: principles and implications · 2024Article
- Assessing recoding accounts of negative attentional templates using behavior and eye tracking.Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition · 2023Article
- Negative and positive templates: Two forms of cued attentional control.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Review
- Benefits from negative templates in easy and difficult search depend on rapid distractor rejection and enhanced guidance.Vision research · 2022Article
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Abstract
Can we use attentional control to ignore known distractor features? Providing cues before a visual search trial about an upcoming distractor color (negative cue) can lead to reaction time benefits compared with no cue trials. This suggests top-down control may use negative templates to actively suppress distractor features, a notion that challenges the mechanisms of top-down control provided in many theories of attention. However, there is currently mixed support for this mechanism in the literature. Alternative explanations have been proposed, which do not require suppression within top-down control but instead involve recoding the negative cue into a positive template based on color or spatial layouts. In three experiments, we contrasted the predictions of active suppression and the recoding strategies. Across experiments, we found consistent evidence against a color recoding account. We also found evidence of accuracy, reaction time, and eye movement benefits when location recoding was not possible. These results suggest that prior benefits from negative cues cannot be explained exclusively by spatial or color recoding. The results indicate that active suppression likely plays a role in the attentional benefits following negative cues. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
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