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Visual attention to color: Parvocellular guidance of attentional resources?

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PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages 180-184

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BLACKWELL PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9280.00433

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Although transient changes in luminance have been well documented to automatically attract attention to their location, experiments looking at abrupt changes in color have failed to find similar attentional capture. These results are consistent with current theories of the role of the magnocellular (M) and parvocellular (P) streams that postulate that the M stream, which is color-blind, plays the dominant role in guiding attention and eye movements. The experiment reported here used stimuli that contained only information defined by color and masked residual luminance information with dynamic noise, to assess the capacity of purely chromatic cues to automatically guide spatial attention. Such stimuli were as effective as those containing large luminance signals in guiding attention. To the extent that these purely chromatic signals isolated the P stream, these results suggest that this stream is also capable of automatic attentional capture. Hence, color vision not only aids target identification but also is a strong aid for target detection and localization.

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