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    Top-down search for color prevents voluntary directing of attention to informative singleton cues

    Ansorge, Ulrich and Worschech, Franziska (2012) Top-down search for color prevents voluntary directing of attention to informative singleton cues. Experimental Psychology 59 (3), pp. 153-162. ISSN 1618-3169.

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    Abstract

    Visuo-spatial attention can be directed in a top-down controlled way to search for color targets and it can be captured by color contrasts, regardless of color identity. Here we tested whether participants can both search for a particular color target (e.g., red) and make use of a color-contrast cue that predicted the target’s most likely position to direct their attention voluntarily. Our results show that this was impossible for the participants. Results support that top-down search for particular colors is incommensurate with directing attention to just any color contrast. The results are discussed in light of the current debates concerning the roles of color and color contrast for visuo-spatial attention.

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    Item Type: Article
    Additional Information: Experimental Psychology was formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): attention, color, contingent capture, singleton capture, cueing
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 17 Jan 2012 10:54
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 16:57
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/4567

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