@article{ref1,
title="The initial stage of visual selection is controlled by top-down task set: new ERP evidence",
journal="Attention, perception and psychophysics",
year="2011",
author="Ansorge, Ulrich and Kiss, Monika and Worschech, Franziska and Eimer, Martin",
volume="73",
number="1",
pages="113-122",
abstract="Salient visual singleton stimuli produce spatial cueing effects indicative of attentional capture only when they match current task sets, suggesting that capture is subject to top-down control. However, such task-set contingent capture effects could be associated with the top-down controlled disengagement of attention from non-matching stimuli that follows their initial bottom-up salience-driven selection. Using the N2pc component as an event-related potential marker of attentional capture, we demonstrate that top-down task set already controls the initial rapid selection of salient visual singleton stimuli prior to any subsequent attentional disengagement. These findings provide new evidence for the primacy of top-down control over bottom-up salience in attentional capture.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1943-3921",
doi="10.3758/s13414-010-0008-3",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-010-0008-3"
}