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Open AccessThe interplay of goal-driven and stimulus-driven influences on spatial orienting
Search for a target stimulus among distractors is subject to both goal-driven and stimulus-driven influences. Variables that selectively modify these influences have shown strong interaction effects on saccade...
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Open AccessThe behavioral urgency of objects approaching your avatar
The behavioral-urgency hypothesis (Franconeri & Simons, Psychological Science, 19, 686–692, 2003) states that dynamic visual properties capture human visual attention if they signal the need for immediate action....
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Visual memory performance for color depends on spatiotemporal context
Performance on visual short-term memory for features has been known to depend on stimulus complexity, spatial layout, and feature context. However, with few exceptions, memory capacity has been measured for ab...
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Open AccessOpenSesame: An open-source, graphical experiment builder for the social sciences
In the present article, we introduce OpenSesame, a graphical experiment builder for the social sciences. OpenSesame is free, open-source, and cross-platform. It features a comprehensive and intuitive graphical...
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Irrelevant onsets cause inhibition of return regardless of attentional set
It is disputed whether onsets capture spatial attention either in a purely stimulus-driven fashion or only when they are contingent on one’s attentional set. According to the latter assumption, interference fr...
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Abrupt onsets capture attention independent of top-down control settings II: Additivity is no evidence for filtering
Is attentional capture contingent on top-down control settings or involuntarily driven by salient stimuli? Supporting the stimulus-driven attentional capture view, Schreij, Owens, and Theeuwes (2008) found tha...
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What is top-down about contingent capture?
In the present study, we explored the mechanisms involved in the contingent capture phenomenon, using a variant of the classic precuing paradigm of Folk, Remington, and Johnston (1992). Rather than kee** the...
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Abrupt onsets capture attention independent of top-down control settings
Previous research using a spatial cuing paradigm in which a distractor cue preceded the target has shown that new objects presented with abrupt onsets only capture attention when observers are set to look for ...
