Basic Shapes Guide Visual Attention Based on Search Goals

Autor(en)
Markus Gruener, Florian Goller, Ulrich Ansorge
Abstrakt

We investigated whether basic shapes can guide visual attention in a goal-directed manner. Participants searched for one specific target shape among different basic shapes (square, diamond, triangle, and pyramid) and reported the color of a dot within the target shape. Before the target display was shown, we presented a matching or nonmatching cue among three circles. The matching cue had the same shape as the target, whereas the nonmatching cue was a hexagon, which was never part of the target display. We found faster reaction times when the matching cue appeared at the same position as the target (valid condition) compared with a different position (invalid condition), suggesting that the matching cue captured attention. However, the nonmatching did not capture attention (same reaction times in the valid and invalid condition), despite being a salient singleton. Results are discussed in terms of top-down contingent-capture theory.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Psychologie der Kognition, Emotion und Methoden
Journal
Perception
Band
48
Seiten
111-112
Anzahl der Seiten
2
ISSN
0301-0066
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/0301006619863862
Publikationsdatum
09-2019
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
501001 Allgemeine Psychologie
Link zum Portal
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/basic-shapes-guide-visual-attention-based-on-search-goals(6d3c4171-db31-44fc-8ee1-1ab07d027a54).html