Can templates-for-rejection suppress real-world affective objects in visual search?

ABSTRACT: Previous evidence has suggested that feature-based templates-for-rejection can be maintained in working memory to suppress matching features in the environment. Currently, this effect has only been demonstrated using abstract neutral shapes, meaning that it is unclear whether this generalizes to real-world images, including aversive stimuli. In the current investigation, participants searched amongst an array of real-world objects for a target, after being precued with either a distractor template, target template, or a no template baseline. In Experiment 1, where both distractor and target template cues were presented randomly on a trial-by-trial basis, there was moderate evidence of increased capture by aversive distractors after the distractor template cue. In Experiment 2a, however, wh

SUBMITTER: Brown CRH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11358251 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature