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://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/basic-shapes-guide-visual-attention-based-on-search-goals(6d3c4171-db31-44fc-8ee1-1ab07d027a54).html