PMID- 38538947
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20240514
LR  - 20240517
IS  - 1943-393X (Electronic)
IS  - 1943-3921 (Print)
IS  - 1943-3921 (Linking)
VI  - 86
IP  - 4
DP  - 2024 May
TI  - Manipulating the reliability of target-color information modulates value-driven 
      attentional capture.
PG  - 1108-1119
LID - 10.3758/s13414-024-02878-7 [doi]
AB  - Previously rewarded stimuli slow response times (RTs) during visual search, 
      despite being physically non-salient and no longer task-relevant or rewarding. 
      Such value-driven attentional capture (VDAC) has been measured in a training-test 
      paradigm. In the training phase, the search target is rendered in one of two 
      colors (one predicting high reward and the other low reward). In this study, we 
      modified this traditional training phase to include pre-cues that signaled 
      reliable or unreliable information about the trial-to-trial color of the training 
      phase search target. Reliable pre-cues indicated the upcoming target color with 
      certainty, whereas unreliable pre-cues indicated the target was equally likely to 
      be one of two distinct colors. Thus reliable and unreliable pre-cues provided 
      certain and uncertain information, respectively, about the magnitude of the 
      upcoming reward. We then tested for VDAC in a traditional test phase. We found 
      that unreliably pre-cued distractors slowed RTs and drew more initial eye 
      movements during search for the test-phase target, relative to reliably pre-cued 
      distractors, thus providing novel evidence for an influence of information 
      reliability on attentional capture. That said, our experimental manipulation also 
      eliminated value-dependency (i.e., slowed RTs when a high-reward-predicting 
      distractor was present relative to a low-reward-predicting distractor) for both 
      kinds of distractors. Taken together, these results suggest that target-color 
      uncertainty, rather than reward magnitude, played a critical role in modulating 
      the allocation of value-driven attention in this study.
CI  - (c) 2024. The Author(s).
FAU - Massa, Nicole B
AU  - Massa NB
AD  - Trinity College, Hartford, CT, USA.
AD  - Mass General Brigham, Boston, MA, USA.
FAU - Crotty, Nick
AU  - Crotty N
AD  - Trinity College, Hartford, CT, USA.
FAU - Levy, Ifat
AU  - Levy I
AD  - Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
FAU - Grubb, Michael A
AU  - Grubb MA
AD  - Trinity College, Hartford, CT, USA. michael.grubb@trincoll.edu.
LA  - eng
GR  - R01 MH118215/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/United States
GR  - R01MH118215/NIH/National Institute of Mental health/
GR  - NSF CAREER 2141860/Division of Social and Economic Sciences/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20240327
PL  - United States
TA  - Atten Percept Psychophys
JT  - Attention, perception & psychophysics
JID - 101495384
SB  - IM
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Attention/physiology
MH  - *Color Perception/physiology
MH  - *Reward
MH  - *Reaction Time
MH  - Young Adult
MH  - *Cues
MH  - Adult
MH  - Male
MH  - Female
MH  - Pattern Recognition, Visual/physiology
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Uncertainty
PMC - PMC11093855
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Attention
OT  - Attention in learning
OT  - Attentional capture
EDAT- 2024/03/28 06:45
MHDA- 2024/05/15 05:42
PMCR- 2024/03/27
CRDT- 2024/03/28 00:35
PHST- 2024/02/28 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2024/05/15 05:42 [medline]
PHST- 2024/03/28 06:45 [pubmed]
PHST- 2024/03/28 00:35 [entrez]
PHST- 2024/03/27 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.3758/s13414-024-02878-7 [pii]
AID - 2878 [pii]
AID - 10.3758/s13414-024-02878-7 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Atten Percept Psychophys. 2024 May;86(4):1108-1119. doi: 
      10.3758/s13414-024-02878-7. Epub 2024 Mar 27.