Goal-driven attentional capture by invisible colors

Autor(en)

Ulrich Ansorge, Monika Kiss, Martin Eimer

Abstrakt

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.

Organisation(en)

Externe Organisation(en)

Universität Osnabrück, University of London

Journal

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Band

16

Seiten

648-653

Anzahl der Seiten

6

ISSN

1069-9384

DOI

https://doi.org/10.3758/PBR.16.4.648

Publikationsdatum

08-2009

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

501001 Allgemeine Psychologie

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/goaldriven-attentional-capture-by-invisible-colors(ea625fed-097d-4709-ad05-137bb7932a79).html