Adapting attentional control settings in a shape-changing environment.

ABSTRACT: In rich visual environments, humans have to adjust their attentional control settings in various ways, depending on the task. Especially if the environment changes dynamically, it remains unclear how observers adapt to these changes. In two experiments (online and lab-based versions of the same task), we investigated how observers adapt their target choices while searching for color singletons among shape distractor contexts that changed over trials. The two equally colored targets had shapes that differed from each other and matched a varying number of distractors. Participants were free to select either target. The results show that participants adjusted target choices to the shape ratio of distractors: even though the task could be finished by focusing on color only, participants showed

SUBMITTER: Mu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10805924 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature