Degraded stimulus visibility and the effects of perceptual load on distractor interference [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 In this study we examined whether effects of perceptual load on the attentional selectivity are modulated by degradation of the visual input. According to the perceptual load theory, increasing task difficulty via degradation of stimulus visibility ...
Yaffa eYeshurun, Hadas eMarciano
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Distractor interference during a choice limb reaching task. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 According to action-centered models of attention, the patterns of distractor interference that emerge in selective reaching tasks are related to the time and effort required to resolve a race for activation between competing target and non-target ...
Matthew Ray +2 more
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Prepared for the expected but unready for the unexpected: Unmet distractor expectations slow braking responsiveness but improve lane-keeping precision in a virtual driving simulation. [PDF]
PLoS ONEDriving requires attentional control mechanisms to enhance the detection of driving-relevant objects and to mitigate interference from distractors.
Andrea Massironi +4 more
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Top-down control of attention under varying task loads
Acta Psychologica, 2021 The performance of a goal-directed task is often interrupted by task-irrelevant distractors. This distractor interference has well been demonstrated in a large body of studies employing the Eriksen flanker paradigm. A notable finding regarding this issue
Suhyeon Jo, Joo Yeon Kim, Suk Won Han
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Mechanisms of interference in vibrotactile working memory. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 In previous studies of interference in vibrotactile working memory, subjects were presented with an interfering distractor stimulus during the delay period between the target and probe stimuli in a delayed match-to-sample task.
Tyler D Bancroft +2 more
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Languages, 2023 In previous picture naming tasks, semantically related distractor words (co-hyponyms to the target word) induce interference, which is usually taken as evidence for lexical competition.
Beate Bergmann +2 more
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Evidence inhibition responds reactively to the salience of distracting information during focused attention. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Along with target amplification, distractor inhibition is regarded as a major contributor to selective attention. Some theories suggest that the strength of inhibitory processing is proportional to the salience of the distractor (i.e., inhibition reacts ...
Natalie Wyatt, Liana Machado
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Searching on the Back: Attentional Selectivity in the Periphery of the Tactile Field
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Recent evidence has identified the N140cc lateralized component of event-related potentials as a reliable index of the deployment of attention to task-relevant items in touch.
Elena Gherri +3 more
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Target templates and the time course of distractor location learning
Scientific Reports, 2023 When searching for a shape target, colour distractors typically capture our attention. Capture is smaller when observers search for a fixed target that allows for a feature-specific target template compared to a varying shape singleton target. Capture is
Aylin A. Hanne +2 more
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Suppression of distracting inputs by visual-spatial cues is driven by anticipatory alpha activity.
PLoS Biology, 2023 A growing body of research demonstrates that distracting inputs can be proactively suppressed via spatial cues, nonspatial cues, or experience, which are governed by more than one top-down mechanism of attention.
Chenguang Zhao +7 more
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