Distractor interference stays constant despite variation in working memory load [PDF]
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2007 Previous studies have shown that working memory (WM) plays an important role in selective attention, sothat high WM load leads to inefficient distractor inhibition, in comparison with low WM load. In the present study, we examined the effect of WM on distractor processing while the extent of attentional focus was held constant. Our results show that WM
Zhe Chen, Celestien C. Chan
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Visual attentional guidance during smooth pursuit eye movements: Distractor interference is independent of distractor‐target similarity [PDF]
Psychophysiology, 2023 AbstractIn the current study, we used abrupt‐onset distractors similar and dissimilar in luminance to the target of a smooth pursuit eye‐movement to test if abrupt‐onset distractors capture attention in a top‐down or bottom‐up fashion while the eyes track a moving object.
M. Stolte, Leon Kraus, Ulrich Ansorge
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Contextual cues can be used to predict the likelihood of and reduce interference from salient distractors. [PDF]
Atten Percept PsychophysMoher J, Leber AB.
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Distractor suppression leads to reduced flanker interference [PDF]
Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 2020 AbstractRecent studies using the additional singleton paradigm have shown that regularities in distractor locations can cause biases in the spatial priority map, such that attentional capture by salient singletons is reduced for locations that are likely to contain distractors.
Yavor Ivanov, Jan Theeuwes
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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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The role of prefrontal cortex in resolving distractor interference [PDF]
Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 2004 We investigate the hypothesis that those subregions of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) found to support proactive interference resolution may also support delay-spanning distractor interference resolution. Ten subjects performed delayed-recognition tasks requiring working memory for faces or shoes during functional MRI scanning.
Amishi P. Jha +2 more
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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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