Attentional and oculomotor capture with static singletons |
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Authors: | Theeuwes Jan De Vries Giel-Jan Godijn Richard |
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Institution: | Department of Cognitive Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. j.theeuwes@psy.vu.nl |
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Abstract: | Previous research has shown that in visual search static singletons have the ability to capture attention (Theeuwes, 1991a, 1992). The present study investigated whether these singletons also have the ability to capture the eyes. Participants had to make an eye movement and respond manually to a shape singleton while a color singleton was present. When participants searched for a unique shape while a unique color singleton was present there was strong attentional and oculomotor capture (Experiment 1). However, when participants searched for a specific-shape singleton (a green circle) when a specific-color singleton (a red element) had to be ignored, there was attentional capture but no oculomotor capture (Experiment 2). The results suggest that an attentional set for a specific feature value defining both the target and the distractor (as in Experiment 2) allows such a fast disengagement of attention from the location of the distractor that a saccade execution to that location is prevented. |
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