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Direct Evidence for Active Suppression of Salient-but-Irrelevant Sensory Inputs

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Gaspelin, Nicholas, Leonard, Carly J., Luck, Steven J.·2015·Psychological Science

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Researchers have long debated whether attentional capture is purely stimulus driven or purely goal driven. In the current study, we tested a hybrid account, called the signal-suppression hypothesis, which posits that stimuli automatically produce a bottom-up salience signal, but that this signal can be suppressed via top-down control processes. To test this account, we used a new capture-probe paradigm in which participants searched for a target shape while ignoring an irrelevant color singleton. On occasional probe trials, letters were briefly presented inside the search shapes, and participants attempted to report these letters. Under conditions that promoted capture by the irrelevant singleton, accuracy was greater for the letter inside the singleton distractor than for letters inside nonsingleton distractors. However, when the conditions were changed to avoid capture by the singleton, accuracy for the letter inside the irrelevant singleton was reduced below the level observed for letters inside nonsingleton distractors, an indication of active suppression of processing at the singleton location.

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Authors: Gaspelin, N., Leonard, C. J., & Luck, S. J.
Affiliations: Center for Mind and Brain
University of California, Davis (US)
Corresponding author: Gaspelin, Nicholas
ORCID: Gaspelin, Nicholas
Leonard, Carly J.
Luck, Steven J.
Venue: Psychological Science
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Published: 2015-09-29
Volume: 26
Issue: 11
Pages: 1740-1750
ISSN: 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
1467-9280
DOI: 10.1177/0956797615597913
PMC: PMC4922750
OpenAlex: W2176026914
Cited by: 388
References: 32
Citations by year: 2026: 34 · 2025: 56 · 2024: 40 · 2023: 39 · 2022: 50 · 2021: 47 · 2020: 31 · 2019: 37 · 2018: 23 · 2017: 22 · 2016: 9
FWCI: 15.63
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: green
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Licence: journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations: Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
Funders: National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH076226)
National Eye Institute (T32EY013587, F32EY024834, P30EY012576, T32EY015387)
Topics: Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
Keywords: attentional capture, top-down control, bottom-up salience, distractor suppression, color singleton, visual search, top-down attention, bottom-up attention
MeSH terms: Adult, Attention, Cues, Female, Humans, Inhibition, Psychological, Male, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Reaction Time, Young Adult

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