Habituation to abrupt-onset distractors with different spatial occurrence probability.

ABSTRACT: Previous studies have shown that abrupt onsets randomly appearing at different locations can be ignored with practice, a result that was interpreted as an instance of habituation. Here we addressed whether habituation of capture can be spatially selective and determined by the rate of onset occurrence at different locations, and whether habituation is achieved via spatial suppression applied at the distractor location. In agreement with the habituation hypothesis, we found that capture attenuation was larger where the onset distractor occurred more frequently, similarly to what has been documented for feature-singleton distractors (the "distractor-location effect"), and that onset interference decreased across trials at both the high- and low-probability distractor locations. By contrast,

SUBMITTER: Valsecchi M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10066111 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature