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Feature-blind attentional suppression of salient distractors
A recent paper has reported, for the first time, that people are capable of suppressing salient singleton distractors of unknown color if the search task requires them to search for the most prevalent of sever...
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Spatial task relevance modulates value-driven attentional capture
Attention tends to be attracted to visual features previously associated with reward. To date, nearly all existing studies examined value-associated stimuli at or near potential target locations, making such l...
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Contributions of gains and losses to attentional capture and disengagement: evidence from the gap paradigm
It is known that movements of visual attention are influenced by features in a scene, such as colors, that are associated with value or with loss. The present study examined the detailed nature of these attent...
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Open AccessSimple action alters attention towards visual features
Recent studies have revealed an action effect, in which a simple action towards a prime stimulus biases attention in a subsequent visual search in favor of objects that match the prime. However, to date the major...
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Ensemble perception without attention depends upon attentional control settings
People are able to rapidly extract summary statistical information about common patterns, or ensembles, that may exist in a scene, such as repeated textures or colors. Here we examined the extent to which such...
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Standing enhances cognitive control and alters visual search
Postural changes and the maintenance of postural stability have been shown to affect many aspects of cognition. Here we examined the extent to which selective visual attention may differ between standing and s...
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Motion onset really does capture attention
Several properties of visual stimuli have been shown to capture attention, one of which is the onset of motion. However, whether motion onset truly captures attention has been debated. It has been argued that ...
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Simple actions activate semantic associations
It is well known that words can prime the identification of related pictures. But how are these connections between words and their visual representations prioritized? Here we show that action modulates word–p...
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Action influences unconscious visual processing
It has long been known that action is tightly linked to visual perception. In support of this connection, recent studies have shown that making a simple action towards a visual object can bias subsequent visua...
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Influence of simple action on subsequent manual and ocular responses
Recent investigations into how action affects perception have revealed an interesting “action effect”—that is, simply acting upon an object enhances its processing in subsequent tasks. The previous studies, ho...
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Reduced object-based perception in the near-hand space
Previous studies have shown that hand proximity changes visual perception (Abrams et al. in Cognition 107(3):1035–1047, 2008). The present study examined the effects of hand proximity on object-based perception. ...
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Decomposing the action effect: How simple actions affect subsequent perception
Simple actions toward an object cause people to allocate attention preferentially toward properties of that object in subsequent unrelated tasks. We show here that it is not necessary to process or attend to a...
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Enhanced cognitive control near the hands
Recent research has shown that objects near the hands receive preferential visual processing. However, it is not known whether proximity to the hands can affect executive functions. Here we show, using two pop...
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Trade-offs in visual processing for stimuli near the hands
It is known that stimuli near the hands receive preferential processing. In the present study, we explored changes in early vision near the hands. Participants were more sensitive to low-spatial-frequency info...
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On the automaticity of contingent capture: disruption caused by the attentional blink
Converging evidence has shown that onset capture can be completely eliminated by the demands of a concurrent task and during the attentional blink. In the present study, we investigated contingent capture duri...
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Hand proximity—not arm posture—alters vision near the hands
Recent research has revealed remarkable changes in vision and cognition when participants place their hands near the stimuli that they are evaluating. In this paradigm, participants perform a task both with th...
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Reaching for words and nonwords: Interactive effects of word frequency and stimulus quality on the characteristics of reaching movements
Word frequency and stimulus degradation produce large and additive effects in the onset latencies of lexical decision responses. The influence of these two variables was examined in a lexical decision task whe...
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Watch this! Observed tool use affects perceived distance
Recent research has shown that being able to interact with an object causes it to be perceived as being closer than objects that cannot be interacted with. In the present study, we examined whether that compre...
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Endogenous orienting is reduced during the attentional blink
We studied endogenous cuing during the attentional blink in order to examine its resistance to dual task interference. In two experiments, we found a reduced impact of endogenous cuing during the “blink” time ...
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Isoluminant motion onset captures attention
In their 2003 article, Abrams and Christ found that the onset of motion captured attention more effectively than either the offset of motion or continuous motion. Abrams and Christ conceptualized the capture t...
