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Evidence that proactive distractor suppression does not require attentional resources
Does the suppression of irrelevant visual features require attentional resources? McDonald et al. (2023, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 30, 224–234) proposed that suppression processes are unavailable while a per...
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On preventing capture: Does greater salience cause greater suppression?
It has been proposed that salient objects have high potential to disrupt target performance, and so people learn to proactively suppress them, thereby preventing these salient distractors from capturing attent...
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The role of perceptual difficulty in visual hindsight bias for emotional faces
Visual hindsight bias, also known as the “saw-it-all-along” effect, is the tendency to overestimate one’s perceptual abilities with the aid of outcome knowledge. Recently, Giroux et al. (2022, Emotion, ...
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Do salient abrupt onsets trigger suppression?
Many studies have indicated that abrupt onsets can capture our attention involuntarily. The present study examined whether task-irrelevant onsets trigger strong suppression of their features, to reduce the abi...
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The role of visual working memory capacity in attention capture among video game players
It is well established that attention can be captured by salient distractors. Some studies have found that action video game players were less susceptible to attention capture by irrelevant distractors than no...
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On preventing attention capture: Is singleton suppression actually singleton suppression?
It is commonly assumed that salient singletons generate an “attend-to-me signal” which causes suppression to develop over time, eventually preventing capture. Despite this assumption and the name “singleton su...
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Correction to: Case mixing impedes early lexical access: converging evidence from the masked priming paradigm
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Case mixing impedes early lexical access: converging evidence from the masked priming paradigm
When letters are presented in mixed case (e.g., “PlAnE), word recognition is slowed. This case-mixing effect has been used to argue that early stages of word recognition operate holistically (on the entire vis...
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Multiple routes to word recognition: evidence from event-related potentials
We used event-related potentials to determine whether lexical access during semantic processing is achieved solely by the letter-based route, or by both a letter-based and word-based route. Participants determ...
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An Electrophysiological Study of Cognitive and Emotion Processing in Type I Chiari Malformation
Type I Chiari malformation (CMI) is a neurological condition in which the cerebellar tonsils descend into the cervical spinal subarachnoid space resulting in cervico-medullary compression. Early case-control i...
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Age-related emotional bias in processing two emotionally valenced tasks
Previous studies suggest that older adults process positive emotions more efficiently than negative emotions, whereas younger adults show the reverse effect. We examined whether this age-related difference in ...
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Stimulus–response correspondence in go–nogo and choice tasks: Are reactions altered by the presence of an irrelevant salient object?
In 2-choice tasks, responses are faster when stimulus location corresponds to response location, even when stimulus location is irrelevant. Dolk et al. (J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform 39:1248–1260, 2013a) foun...
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Processing visual words with numbers: Electrophysiological evidence for semantic activation
Perea, Duñabeitia, and Carreiras (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 34:237–241, 2008) found that LEET stimuli, formed by a mixture of digits and letters (e.g., T4BL3 instead of ...
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An electrophysiological study of the object-based correspondence effect: Is the effect triggered by an intended gras** action?
We examined Goslin, Dixon, Fischer, Cangelosi, and Ellis’s (Psychological Science 23:152–157, 2012) claim that the object-based correspondence effect (i.e., faster keypress responses when the orientation of an ob...
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Breaking through the attentional window: Capture by abrupt onsets versus color singletons
Theeuwes (Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 11:65–70, 2004) proposed that stimulus-driven capture occurs primarily for salient stimuli that fall within the observer’s attentional window, such as when performing a par...
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Electrophysiological evidence of different loci for case-mixing and word frequency effects in visual word recognition
Do word frequency and case mixing affect different processing stages in visual word recognition? Some studies of online reading have suggested that word frequency affects an earlier, perceptual-encoding stage ...
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Even frequent and expected words are not identified without spatial attention
Previous studies have disagreed about the extent to which people extract meaning from words presented outside the focus of spatial attention. The present study examined a possible explanation for such discrepa...
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Nonautomatic emotion perception in a dual-task situation
Are emotions perceived automatically? Two psychological refractory period experiments were conducted to ascertain whether emotion perception requires central attentional resources. Task 1 required an auditory ...
