@article{ref1,
title="Filtering items of mass distraction: top-down biases against distractors are necessary for the feature-based carry-over to occur",
journal="Vision research",
year="2007",
author="Braithwaite, Jason J. and Humphreys, Glyn W.",
volume="47",
number="12",
pages="1570-1583",
abstract="In preview search a new target is difficult to detect if it carries a feature shared with the old distractors [Braithwaite, J. J., Humphreys, G. W., and Hodsoll, J. (2003). Color grouping in space and time: Evidence from negative color-based carry-over effects in preview search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 29(4), 758-778.] Two experiments are presented which examined whether this negative color carry-over effect is dependent on an attentional-set to ignore old, irrelevant distractors. Consistent with this, the data show that the negative carry-over effect is greatly reduced if the attentional-set to ignore the old preview items is removed and replaced by a set to prioritize the old items instead. The findings demonstrate that preview search, and the carry-over effect, are at least partly determined by a top-down intentional bias against old, irrelevant information.   <p></p>  <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0042-6989",
doi="10.1016/j.visres.2007.02.019",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2007.02.019"
}