scholarly journals Involuntary transfer of a top-down attentional set into the focus of attention: Evidence from a contingent attentional capture paradigm

2010 ◽  
Vol 72 (6) ◽  
pp. 1495-1509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Sledge Moore ◽  
Daniel H. Weissman
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Capture ◽  
Focus Of Attention ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Attentional Set ◽  
Contingent Attentional Capture

The role of top-down spatial attention in contingent attentional capture

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (5) ◽  
pp. 650-662 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wanyi Huang ◽  
Yuling Su ◽  
Yanfen Zhen ◽  
Zhe Qu
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Attention ◽  
Attentional Capture ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Contingent Attentional Capture

scholarly journals Top–down contingent attentional capture during feed-forward visual processing

2010 ◽  
Vol 135 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrich Ansorge ◽  
Gernot Horstmann ◽  
Ingrid Scharlau
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Capture ◽  
Visual Processing ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Feed Forward ◽  
Contingent Attentional Capture

scholarly journals Follow the sign! Top-down contingent attentional capture of masked arrow cues

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (-1) ◽  
pp. 82-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heiko Reuss ◽  
Carsten Pohl ◽  
Andrea Kiesel ◽  
Wilfried Kunde
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Capture ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Contingent Attentional 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.

scholarly journals Impaired Contingent Attentional Capture Predicts Reduced Working Memory Capacity in Schizophrenia

PLoS ONE ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. e48586 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jutta S. Mayer ◽  
Keisuke Fukuda ◽  
Edward K. Vogel ◽  
Sohee Park
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Attentional Capture ◽  
Working Memory Capacity ◽  
Memory Capacity ◽  
Contingent Attentional Capture

scholarly journals Dual-target contingent attentional capture effects are modulated by associative learning

2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 87-87
Author(s):  
K. Moore ◽  
E. Wiemers ◽  
S. Lee ◽  
C. Santos
Keyword(s):  
Associative Learning ◽  
Attentional Capture ◽  
Contingent Attentional Capture ◽  
Dual Target
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