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Is there feature-based attentional selection in visual search?

Is there feature-based attentional selection in visual search?
Is there feature-based attentional selection in visual search?
A new paradigm combines attentional cuing and rapid serial visual presentation to disentangle the effects of perceptual filtering and location selection. Observers search successive, superimposed arrays, in which feature values are alternated for a target numeral among letters. Two dimensions, size (small, large) and color (red, green) are tested. Selective attention to feature values is jointly manipulated by instructions, presentation probabilities, and payoffs. In Experiment 1, the attended feature provides temporal, not spatial, information; observers show no attentional costs or benefits in response accuracy. In Experiment 2, the attended feature indicates a unique location; observers show consistent attentional costs and benefits. Selective attention to a particular size or color does not cause perceptual exclusion or admission of items containing that feature; it acts by guiding search processes to spatial locations that contain the to-be-attended feature.
0096-1523
758-779
Shih, Shui-I
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Sperling, George
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Shih, Shui-I
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Sperling, George
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Shih, Shui-I and Sperling, George (1996) Is there feature-based attentional selection in visual search? Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 22 (3), 758-779.

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A new paradigm combines attentional cuing and rapid serial visual presentation to disentangle the effects of perceptual filtering and location selection. Observers search successive, superimposed arrays, in which feature values are alternated for a target numeral among letters. Two dimensions, size (small, large) and color (red, green) are tested. Selective attention to feature values is jointly manipulated by instructions, presentation probabilities, and payoffs. In Experiment 1, the attended feature provides temporal, not spatial, information; observers show no attentional costs or benefits in response accuracy. In Experiment 2, the attended feature indicates a unique location; observers show consistent attentional costs and benefits. Selective attention to a particular size or color does not cause perceptual exclusion or admission of items containing that feature; it acts by guiding search processes to spatial locations that contain the to-be-attended feature.

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Published date: 1996

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Local EPrints ID: 18589
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/18589
ISSN: 0096-1523
PURE UUID: 10d8767d-b1ef-413b-98ad-7032d3ee41aa

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Date deposited: 01 Dec 2005
Last modified: 08 Jan 2022 15:47

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Author: Shui-I Shih
Author: George Sperling

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