The initial stage of visual selection is controlled by top-down task set: new ERP evidence.

Autor: Ansorge U; Faculty of Psychology, Universität Wien, Liebiggasse 5, Vienna, Austria. ulrich.ansorge@univie.ac.at, Kiss M, Worschech F, Eimer M
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Attention, perception & psychophysics [Atten Percept Psychophys] 2011 Jan; Vol. 73 (1), pp. 113-22.
DOI: 10.3758/s13414-010-0008-3
Abstrakt: Salient visual singleton stimuli produce spatial cueing effects indicative of attentional capture only when they match current task sets, suggesting that capture is subject to top-down control. However, such task-set contingent capture effects could be associated with the top-down controlled disengagement of attention from non-matching stimuli that follows their initial bottom-up salience-driven selection. Using the N2pc component as an event-related potential marker of attentional capture, we demonstrate that top-down task set already controls the initial rapid selection of salient visual singleton stimuli prior to any subsequent attentional disengagement. These findings provide new evidence for the primacy of top-down control over bottom-up salience in attentional capture.
Databáze: MEDLINE