Practice reduces set-specific capture costs only superficially |
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Authors: | Moore Katherine Sledge Wiemers Elizabeth A. |
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Affiliation: | 1.Department of Psychology, Arcadia University, 450 S. Easton Rd, Glenside, PA, 19038, USA ;2.Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA ; |
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Abstract: | Contingent attentional capture costs are doubled or tripled under certain conditions when multiple attentional sets guide visual search (e.g., “search for green letters” and “search for orange letters”). Such “set-specific” capture occurs when a potential target that matches one attentional set (e.g., a green stimulus) impairs the ability to identify a temporally proximal target that matches another attentional set (e.g., an orange stimulus). In the present study, we examined whether these severe set-specific capture effects could be attenuated through training. In Experiment 1, half of participants experienced training consisting of mostly trials involving a set switch from distractor to target, while the other half experienced training consisting of mostly trials in which a set switch was not required. Upon test, participants trained on set switches produced greatly reduced set-specific capture effects compared to their own pretraining levels and compared to participants trained on trials without a set switch. However, in Experiments 2 and 3, we found that these training effects did not transfer to a new color context or even a single new target color, indicating that they were specific and involved low-level associative learning. We concluded that set-specific capture is pervasive and largely immutable, even with practice. |
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