TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Contingent attentional capture by conceptually relevant images
JO  - Journal of experimental psychology: human perception and performance
A1  - Wyble, Brad
A1  - Folk, Charles L.
A1  - Potter, Mary C.
SP  - 861
EP  - 871
VL  - 39
IS  - 3
N2  - Attentional capture is an unintentional shift of visuospatial attention to the location of a distractor that is either highly salient, or relevant to the current task set. The latter situation is referred to as contingent capture, in that the effect is contingent on a match between characteristics of the stimuli and the task-defined attentional-control settings of the viewer. Contingent capture has been demonstrated for low-level features, such as color, motion, and orientation. In the present paper we show that contingent capture can also occur for conceptual information at the superordinate level (e.g., sports equipment, marine animal, dessert food). This effect occurs rapidly (i.e., within 200 ms), is a spatial form of attention, and is contingent on attentional-control settings that change on each trial, suggesting that natural images can be decoded into their conceptual meaning to drive shifts of attention within the time course of a single fixation. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0096-1523
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0030517
ID  - ref1
ER  -