scholarly journals Testing a Priming Account of the Contingent-Capture Effect

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (10) ◽  
pp. 139b
Author(s):  
Ulrich Ansorge ◽  
Tobias Schoeberl ◽  
Florian Goller
Keyword(s):  
Contingent Capture ◽  
Capture Effect

scholarly journals Testing a priming account of the contingent-capture effect

2019 ◽  
Vol 81 (5) ◽  
pp. 1262-1282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tobias Schoeberl ◽  
Florian Goller ◽  
Ulrich Ansorge
Keyword(s):  
Contingent Capture ◽  
Capture Effect

Visual-Spatial Contingent Capture Is Involuntary But Not Automatic

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benoit Brisson ◽  
Emilie Leblanc ◽  
Pierre Jolicoeur
Keyword(s):  
Contingent Capture ◽  
Visual Spatial

Contingent Capture by a Conjunction Set

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jamie Naylor ◽  
Mei-Ching Lien ◽  
Jessica Irons ◽  
Roger Remington
Keyword(s):  
Contingent Capture

TESTING GOAL-DRIVEN CAPTURE BY THREAT

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Robert Harrison Brown
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Evidence ◽  
Attentional Capture ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Experimental Manipulation ◽  
Contingent Capture ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Affective Stimuli ◽  
Clinical Disorders ◽  
Positive Stimuli

Attention has long been characterised within prominent models as reflecting a competition between goal-driven and stimulus-driven processes. It remains unclear, however, how involuntary attentional capture by affective stimuli, such as threat-laden content, fits into such models. While such effects were traditionally held to reflect stimulus-driven processes, recent research has increasingly implicated a critical role of goal-driven processes. Here we test an alternative goal-driven account of involuntary attentional capture by threat, using an experimental manipulation of goal-driven attention. To this end we combined the classic ‘contingent capture’ and ‘emotion-induced blink’ (EIB) paradigms in an RSVP task with both positive or threatening target search goals. Across six experiments, positive and threat distractors were presented in peripheral, parafoveal, and central locations. Across all distractor locations, we found that involuntary attentional capture by irrelevant threatening distractors could be induced via the adoption of a search goal for a threatening category; adopting a goal for a positive category conversely led to capture only by positive stimuli. Our findings provide direct experimental evidence for a causal role of voluntary goals in involuntary capture by irrelevant threat stimuli, and hence demonstrate the plausibility of a top-down account of this phenomenon. We discuss the implications of these findings in relation to current cognitive models of attention and clinical disorders.

The Capture Effect in FM Receivers

1976 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 531-539 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Leentvaar ◽  
J. Flint
Keyword(s):  
Capture Effect
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