Perceptual selectivity for color and form
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Three visual-search experiments tested whether the preattentive parallel stage can selectively guide the attentive stage to a particular known-to-be-relevant target feature. Subjects searched multielement displays for a salient green circle that had a unique form when surrounded by green nontarget squares or had a unique color when surrounded by red nontarget circles. In the distractor conditions, a salient item in the other dimension was present as well. As an extension of earlier findings (Theeuwes, 1991), the results showed that complete top-down selectivity toward a particular feature was not possible, not even after extended and consistent practice. The results reveal that selectivity depends on the relative discriminability of the stimulus dimensions: the presence of an irrelevant item with a unique color interferes with parallel search for a unique form, and vice versa.
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Physically salient task-irrelevant distractors can disrupt top-down control and capture attention and eyes.
“For example, research demonstrated that when searching for a given target, physically salient distractors that are otherwise irrelevant for the task at hand can disrupt top-down control and capture attention (“attentional capture”: Theeuwes, 1992; Yantis & Jonides, 1990) as well as our eyes (“oculomotor capture”: Theeuwes, Kramer, Hahn & Irwin, 1998; Theeuwes, Kramer, Hahn, Irwin, & Zelinsky, 1999”
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- Authors
- Theeuwes, J.
- Affiliations
- Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (NL)
- Corresponding author
- Theeuwes, Jan
- ORCID
- Theeuwes, Jan
- Venue
- Perception & Psychophysics
- Published
- 1992-11
- Volume
- 51
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 599-606
- ISSN
- 0031-5117 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-5962
- OpenAlex
- W1991630384
- Cited by
- 1,649
- References
- 20
- Citations by year
- 2026: 58 · 2025: 89 · 2024: 96 · 2023: 76 · 2022: 84 · 2021: 83 · 2020: 81 · 2019: 84 · 2018: 74 · 2017: 68 · 2016: 56 · 2015: 72 · 2014: 85 · 2013: 83 · 2012: 67
- FWCI
- 5.96
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Perception & Psychophysics (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- TNO Repository (submittedVersion)
- Repository hosted by TU Delft Library (TU Delft) (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Visual perception and processing mechanisms
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- visual search, top-down attention, feature selectivity, color, form, distractor interference, discriminability, attention guidance, practice effects
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Color Perception, Equipment Design, Female, Form Perception, Humans, Male, Mental Processes, Perceptual Masking
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