PMID- 1561053
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19920511
LR  - 20190819
IS  - 0031-5117 (Print)
IS  - 0031-5117 (Linking)
VI  - 51
IP  - 3
DP  - 1992 Mar
TI  - Involuntary attentional capture by abrupt onsets.
PG  - 279-90
AB  - The extent to which brief abrupt-onset visual stimuli involuntarily capture 
      spatial attention was examined in five experiments. The paradigm used was 
      intended to maximize the opportunity and incentive for subjects to ignore 
      abrupt-onset distractor stimuli in nontarget locations. Subjects made a speeded 
      two-choice response to a target letter appearing in one of four boxes. An 
      abrupt-onset visual stimulus, easily discriminable from the target, was flashed 
      briefly prior to the presentation of a target. In separate blocks, the flash 
      stimulus marked the box in which the target would subsequently appear (SAME), a 
      different box (DIFF), fixation (CENTER), or all four boxes (ALL). Prior to each 
      block, subjects were informed of the flash-target relationship. In all five 
      experiments, response time was elevated in the DIFF, CENTER, and ALL conditions. 
      The interference effect was larger for the DIFF condition and persisted for 
      longer flash-target SOAs. These results suggest that, under appropriate 
      conditions, spatial attention can be involuntarily drawn to abrupt-onset events 
      despite the intention of subjects' to ignore them.
FAU - Remington, R W
AU  - Remington RW
AD  - NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035.
FAU - Johnston, J C
AU  - Johnston JC
FAU - Yantis, S
AU  - Yantis S
LA  - eng
GR  - R01-MH43924/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
PT  - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
PL  - United States
TA  - Percept Psychophys
JT  - Perception & psychophysics
JID - 0200445
MH  - *Attention
MH  - *Discrimination Learning
MH  - Humans
MH  - Mental Recall
MH  - *Orientation
MH  - *Pattern Recognition, Visual
MH  - Psychophysics
MH  - Reaction Time
EDAT- 1992/03/01 00:00
MHDA- 1992/03/01 00:01
CRDT- 1992/03/01 00:00
PHST- 1992/03/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1992/03/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1992/03/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.3758/bf03212254 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Percept Psychophys. 1992 Mar;51(3):279-90. doi: 10.3758/bf03212254.