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