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Feature-based attention is not confined by object boundaries: Spatially global enhancement of irrelevant features

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PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
卷 28, 期 4, 页码 1252-1260

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SPRINGER
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-021-01897-x

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Feature-based attention; Object-based attention; Visual attention; Perceptual grouping; Global feature enhancement

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  1. National Science Foundation [BCS-1850738]
  2. Fulbright New Zealand

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Feature-based theories suggest that features not primarily attended are enhanced globally, surpassing object boundaries. Object-based theories propose that secondary, task-irrelevant features are enhanced within object boundaries.
Theories of visual attention differ in what they identify as the core unit of selection. Feature-based theories emphasize basic visual features (e.g., color, motion), demonstrated through enhancement of attended features throughout the visual field, while object-based theories propose that attention enhances all features belonging to the same object. These theories make distinct predictions about the processing of features that are not attended primarily: Object-based theories predict that such secondary, task-irrelevant features are enhanced within object boundaries, while feature-based theories predict enhancement of irrelevant features across locations, regardless of objecthood. To test these two accounts, we had participants attend a set of colored dots among distractor dots (moving coherently upward or downward) to detect brief luminance decreases, while simultaneously detecting speed changes in other sets of dots in the opposite visual field. In the first experiment, we demonstrate that participants have higher speed detection rates in the dot array that matched the motion direction of the attended color array, although motion direction was task-irrelevant. In a second experiment, we manipulated the probability that speed changes occurred in the matching motion direction and found that enhancement of the irrelevant motion direction persisted even when it was detrimental for task performance, suggesting that spatially global effects of feature-based attention cannot easily be flexibly adjusted. Overall, these results indicate that features that are not primarily attended are enhanced globally, surpassing object boundaries.

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