Assessing recoding accounts of negative attentional templates using behavior and eye tracking.

ABSTRACT: Can we use attentional control to ignore known distractor features? Providing cues before a visual search trial about an upcoming distractor color (negative cue) can lead to reaction time benefits compared with no cue trials. This suggests top-down control may use negative templates to actively suppress distractor features, a notion that challenges the mechanisms of top-down control provided in many theories of attention. However, there is currently mixed support for this mechanism in the literature. Alternative explanations have been proposed, which do not require suppression within top-down control but instead involve recoding the negative cue into a positive template based on color or spatial layouts. In three experiments, we contrasted the predictions of active suppression and the reco

SUBMITTER: Zhang Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10580292 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature