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CURRENT OPINION IN PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 29, Issue -, Pages 12-18Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2018.10.013
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- National Research Service Award from the National Eye Institute [F32EY024834]
- NIH [R01MH076226, R01MH065034]
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Physically salient stimuli, such as uniquely colored objects, seem to have an inherent power to capture our attention, but formal research on this topic has produced conflicting results and theories. Here, we review evidence that the attentional capture debate can be resolved by positing a new suppressive process. This suppressive process can occur before attentional shifting to prevent salient items from attracting attention. In the current article, we review converging evidence that salient items are suppressed to avoid attentional capture comes from studies of psychophysics, eye movements, singleunit recordings, and event-related potentials (ERPs). Crucially, the ability to inhibit salient distractors seems to be learned as participants gain experience with the simple features of the to-be-ignored stimuli.
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