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PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
Volume 16, Issue 4, Pages 648-653Publisher
PSYCHONOMIC SOC INC
DOI: 10.3758/PBR.16.4.648
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- BBSRC [BB/E02470X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/E02470X/1] Funding Source: Medline
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/E02470X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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We combined event-related brain potentials (ERPs) and behavioral measures to test whether subliminal visual stimuli can capture attention in a goal-dependent manner. Participants searched for visual targets defined by a specific color. Search displays served as metacontrast masks for preceding cue displays that contained one cue in the target color. Although this target-color cue was spatially uninformative, it produced behavioral spatial cuing effects and triggered an ERP correlate of attentional selection (i.e., the N2pc component). These results demonstrate that target-color cues captured attention, in spite of the fact that cue localization performance assessed in separate blocks was at chance level. We conclude that task-set contingent attentional capture is not restricted to supraliminal stimuli, but is also elicited by visual events that are not consciously perceived.
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