The effects of display context on the effectiveness of visual onsets for attention capture

This article examines the roles of platform-based distribution and user data in the digital music economy. Drawing on trade press, newspaper coverage, and a consumer privacy complaint, we offer a critical analysis of tech-music partnerships forged between Samsung and Jay-Z (2013), Apple iTunes Store and U2 (2014), Tidal and Kanye West (2016), and Apple Music and Drake (2017). In these cases, information technology (IT) companies supported album releases, and music was used to generate user data and attention: logics of data and attention capture were interwoven. The IT and music industries have adapted their business strategies to what we conceptualize as platform-based capital accumulation or ‘platform accumulation’, and models centred on controlling access and extracting rent have enabled the emergence of new monopolies and IT gatekeepers.

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The role of flicker and abrupt displacement in attention capture by motion onsets

Attention Perception & Psychophysics ◽

10.3758/s13414-013-0587-x ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 76 (2) ◽

pp. 508-518 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Meera Mary Sunny ◽

Adrian von Mühlenen

Keyword(s):

Attention Capture

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Proportional Context of Distracters alters Top-Down Sets during Contingent Attention Capture

Journal of Vision ◽

10.1167/17.10.947 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 17 (10) ◽

pp. 947

Author(s):

Dick Dubbelde ◽

Adam Greenberg

Keyword(s):

Attention Capture ◽

Top Down

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To what extent do erotic images elicit visuospatial versus cognitive attentional processes? Consistent support for a (non-spatial) Sexual Content-Induced Delay

10.31234/osf.io/jx4f8 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Roland Imhoff ◽

Paul Barker ◽

Alexander F. Schmidt

Keyword(s):

Visuospatial Attention ◽

Attention Capture ◽

Heterosexual Men ◽

Sexual Content ◽

Major Drawback ◽

Total N ◽

Attentional Processes ◽

Erotic Stimuli ◽

Cognitive Attention ◽

Consistent Support

It is almost a cultural truism that erotic images attract our attention, presumably because paying attention to erotic stimuli provided our ancestors with mating benefits. Attention, however, can be narrowly defined as visuospatial attention (keeping such stimuli in view) or more broadly as cognitive attention (such stimuli taking up one’s thoughts). We present four independent studies aiming to test the extent to which erotic images have priority in capturing visuospatial versus cognitive attention. Whereas the former would show in quicker reactions to stimuli presented in locations where erotic images appeared previously, the latter causes delayed responding after erotic images, independent of their location). To this end, we specifically modified spatial cueing tasks to disentangle visuospatial attention capture from general sexual content-induced delay (SCID) effects—a major drawback in the previous literature. Consistently across all studies (total N = 399), we found no evidence in support of visuospatial attention capture but reliably observed an unspecific delay of responding for trials in which erotic images appeared (irrespective of cue location). This SCID is equally large for heterosexual men and women and reliably associated with their self-reported sexual excitability.

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