Article
Neurosciences
Tobias Feldmann-Wustefeld, Marina Weinberger, Edward Awh
Summary: Research has shown that active suppression of salient distractors is a crucial aspect of visual selection. The study provides clear evidence for a spatial gradient of suppression surrounding salient singleton distractors, with target selection improving as the distance between target and distractor increases.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Psychology
Kevin Dent
Summary: The study examined the interference of salient singleton distractors in conjunction and feature search tasks. In conjunction search, singleton distractors in the task-relevant dimensions showed clear interference effects, while those in the task-irrelevant dimension did not. The interference was modulated by target relevance along the other task relevant dimension. In feature search, there was strong interference from task-relevant dimensions but a reduced role for top-down modulation of singleton interference compared to conjunction search. The results support a model of conjunction search that combines weighted dimensional feature contrast signals with top-down feature guidance signals in a feature-independent map.
ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
William Narhi-Martinez, Blaire Dube, Jiageng Chen, Andrew B. B. Leber, Julie D. D. Golomb
Summary: This study demonstrates that learned spatial suppression can protect the processing of target features by reducing the cost of distraction. It shows that suppression plays a larger role in preventing distracting information from being encoded, in addition to helping us avoid salient distractors.
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Shawn M. Willett, J. Patrick Mayo
Summary: Reliable and noninvasive biomarkers are important for neurological diagnoses. Microsaccades, small eye movements, have been proposed as a biomarker for attention, but their direction may not accurately reflect covert spatial attention in complex viewing conditions.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
(2023)
Article
Business
Anita Radon, Daniel C. Brannon, James Reardon
Summary: Placing complementary product displays together can increase attention, leading customers to focus more on the focal product and ultimately decide to make a purchase.
JOURNAL OF RETAILING AND CONSUMER SERVICES
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Maximilian Stefani, Marian Sauter
Summary: In visual search, attention is captured by salient distractors and needs to be actively disengaged from them to reach the target. Previous studies have primarily focused on the stimulus-driven processes related to oculomotor capture, neglecting the role of oculomotor disengagement. This study found that oculomotor disengagement plays a significant role in explaining distractor dwell time, emphasizing its importance in visual search.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
Mao Xi, Yun Zhou, Zheng Chen, Wengang Zhou, Houqiang Li
Summary: This study proposes a novel anti-distractor active object tracking framework by introducing multiple attention modules, which accurately tracks the target by distinguishing it from distractors using channel-wise attention and fusing observation history with temporal attention. Extensive experiments in Unreal Engine demonstrate the effectiveness of this method.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS FOR VIDEO TECHNOLOGY
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Kishore Kumar Jagini, Meera Mary Sunny
Summary: Our sensory systems can extract and utilize statistical regularities in sensory inputs for efficient perceptual processing. Past research has shown the independent utilization of statistical regularities within a modality to enhance target processing or suppress distractor processing. In this study, we investigated whether task-irrelevant auditory stimuli's spatial and non-spatial statistical regularities could suppress visual distractors. The results indicate that the regularities of task-irrelevant auditory stimuli did not reliably influence distractor suppression.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Bo-Yeong Won
Summary: Recent research suggests that passive exposure to distractors can attenuate interference from distractors during actual visual search, potentially through habituation processes.
Article
Psychology
Fredrik Allenmark, Bei Zhang, Zhuanghua Shi, Hermann J. Mueller
Summary: Salient but task-irrelevant distractors interfere less with visual search when they appear in a display region where distractors have appeared more frequently in the past. This effect can be explained by the (re-)distribution of a limited attentional inhibition resource. It is also possible that this distractor-location learning reflects a local response to distractors occurring at a particular location. The experiments conducted in this study provide evidence for purely local learning of distractor interference.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY-HUMAN PERCEPTION AND PERFORMANCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Leah R. Enders, Robert J. Smith, Stephen M. Gordon, Anthony J. Ries, Jonathan Touryan
Summary: Researchers utilized eye tracking technology in a virtual environment to study visual search behavior, finding a significant relationship between gaze behavior and target objects. Additionally, they observed that with increased cognitive load, participants slowed down, focused less on objects, and scanned more objects in the environment. The study demonstrates the usefulness of complex virtual environments in active visual search experimentation and provides insight into individual behaviors during un-timed visual search tasks.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
Lisa Lui, Jay Pratt, Rebecca K. K. Lawrence
Summary: Recently, it was found that irrelevant salient stimuli can disrupt visual search. The prevalence of the distractors can influence their impact on search processes. Two experiments were conducted to investigate the effect of distractor prevalence on the distractor-quitting threshold effect. The results showed that distractor prevalence did not modulate the effect in Experiment 1, but it did in Experiment 2.
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Mathematical
Janet H. Hsiao, Antoni B. Chan, Jeehye An, Su-Ling Yeh, Jingling Li
Summary: The study shows that the collinear masking effect is associated with reduced eye-fixation consistency, possibly due to attention shift to a non-saccadic-goal location, interfering with attention capture by the collinear distractor. Older adults did not differ from young adults in the masking effect, suggesting limited contribution from aging-related cognitive decline. Pre-saccadic attention shift prior to search may be an important factor influencing search behavior.
PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Software Engineering
Sandra Malpica, Daniel Martin, Ana Serrano, Diego Gutierrez, Belen Masia
Summary: Visual behavior is influenced by both bottom-up and top-down mechanisms, and different cognitive tasks have been found to significantly impact visual behavior. This research provides insights for the design of task-oriented immersive applications.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VISUALIZATION AND COMPUTER GRAPHICS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Cenlou Hu, Tian Po Oei, Qiong Huang, Renlai Zhou
Summary: Attention bias contributes to the development and maintenance of test anxiety. The bottom-up attention bias mechanism shows early vigilance and improved processing efficiency in individuals with test anxiety. In a visual search task, test-anxious individuals show higher attention and faster response towards test-related targets.
CURRENT PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Michael Jenkins, Anna Grubert, Martin Eimer
BIOLOGICAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2018)
Article
Neurosciences
Anna Grubert, Martin Eimer
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2018)
Article
Neurosciences
Koen Rummens, Bilge Sayim
Article
Psychology
Gernot Horstmann, Stefanie I. Becker, Anna Grubert
ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS
(2020)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Natalia Melnik, Daniel R. Coates, Bilge Sayim
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2020)
Article
Neurosciences
Anna Grubert, Martin Eimer
JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2020)
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Adrien Doerig, Lynn Schmittwilken, Bilge Sayim, Mauro Manassi, Michael H. Herzog
PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
(2020)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Fazilet Zeynep Yildirim, Daniel R. Coates, Bilge Sayim
Summary: The study found that contextual stimuli have a significant impact on peripheral visual perception, with similar contexts not revealing a reduction in the number of repeated items, which was only observed in neutral and dissimilar contexts.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Music
Thilo Hirsch, Marina Haiduk, Bilge Sayim
Summary: This article examines Toon Moonen's method of reconstructing an early viol based on an iconographic source, with a focus on using interdisciplinary approaches such as infrared reflectograms, 3D graphics, and perceptual psychology. The research explores the 'reality effects' intended by the painter and general methodological requirements for reconstructing musical instruments from iconographic sources.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Koen Rummens, Bilge Sayim
Summary: This study examined the validity of the similarity rule in crowding when attention is directed towards multiple objects. The results demonstrated a reversal of the similarity rule under broadened attention, suggesting that stimulus uniformity benefits crowded object recognition.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
Article
Ophthalmology
Koen Rummens, Bilge Sayim
Summary: Crowding occurs when surrounding objects impair target perception. Typically, weaker interference is observed with strong differences between target and flankers, but configural cues can override this advantage. Furthermore, features such as emergent features and redundancy masking can interact non-additively, affecting crowding strength in complex ways.
Article
Psychology, Experimental
Fazilet Zeynep Yildirim, Bilge Sayim
Summary: The study investigated the impact of redundancy masking on observers' confidence in perceptual judgments in visual scenes. Observers showed more confidence in their responses when redundancy masking occurred in radial arrangements compared to when it did not, while they were equally confident in their responses in tangential arrangements.
CONSCIOUSNESS AND COGNITION
(2022)
Article
Psychology
Yu R. Dandan, Luyan Ji, Yunping Song, Bilge Sayim
Summary: People have the ability to extract summary statistical information from groups of similar objects, known as ensemble perception. This study investigates the role of foveal input in ensemble emotion perception and finds that it plays a crucial role in determining perceived emotions of face ensembles.
ATTENTION PERCEPTION & PSYCHOPHYSICS
(2023)
Editorial Material
Ophthalmology
Michael H. Herzog, Bilge Sayim
Article
Neurosciences
L-Miao Li, Bert Reynvoet, Bilge Sayim
Summary: Humans can estimate the number of visually displayed items without counting, and this ability is attributed to the utilization of various stimulus features. The inhomogeneities and asymmetries of the visual field, such as the radial-tangential anisotropy, impact numerosity perception. This study investigates the impact of the radial-tangential anisotropy on numerosity perception and suggests that visual space asymmetries should be considered in studying numerosity estimation.