Why don't color singletons capture attention? The role of perceptual load

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas W. Gaspelin ◽  
Eric Ruthruff ◽  
Shaun P. Vecera ◽  
Joshua D. Cosman
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2019 ◽  
Vol 129 ◽  
pp. 65-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rinaldo Livio Perri ◽  
Marika Berchicci ◽  
Valentina Bianco ◽  
Federico Quinzi ◽  
Donatella Spinelli ◽  
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PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. e0248733
Author(s):  
Marios Theodorou ◽  
Nikos Konstantinou ◽  
Georgia Panayiotou

Social Anxiety Disorder is among the most widely studied psychiatric conditions. However, the role of attentional and emotional processes in the maintenance of the condition is still not well-established. This study addressed the impact of individual differences in Social Anxiety, by examining the effects of perceptual load and stimulus valence when processing faces vs objects, here used as distractors, within a letter-search task. In addition to RT and accuracy on the letter search task, heart rate, and skin conductance during the task and participants’ self-report emotional evaluation were assessed to help interpret performance effects. Results suggest that distractor stimuli that are either threatening or faces impair performance of high SA participants. Results demonstrate a hypervigilance for threatening faces in SA but indicate that this happens primarily when cognitive resources are available, that is, under low perceptual load.


Cognition ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 111 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-355 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sophie Forster ◽  
Nilli Lavie
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2006 ◽  
Vol 1080 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nilli Lavie

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