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Learned Value Magnifies Salience-Based Attentional Capture
Visual attention is captured by physically salient stimuli (termed salience-based attentional capture), and by otherwise task-irrelevant stimuli that contain goal-related features (termed contingent attentional capture). Recently, we reported that physically nonsalient stimuli associated with value...
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2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3221688/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22132170 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0027926 |
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author | Anderson, Brian A. Laurent, Patryk A. Yantis, Steven |
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description | Visual attention is captured by physically salient stimuli (termed salience-based attentional capture), and by otherwise task-irrelevant stimuli that contain goal-related features (termed contingent attentional capture). Recently, we reported that physically nonsalient stimuli associated with value through reward learning also capture attention involuntarily (Anderson, Laurent, & Yantis, PNAS, 2011). Although it is known that physical salience and goal-relatedness both influence attentional priority, it is unknown whether or how attentional capture by a salient stimulus is modulated by its associated value. Here we show that a physically salient, task-irrelevant distractor previously associated with a large reward slows visual search more than an equally salient distractor previously associated with a smaller reward. This magnification of salience-based attentional capture by learned value extinguishes over several hundred trials. These findings reveal a broad influence of learned value on involuntary attentional capture. |
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spelling | pubmed-32216882011-11-30 Learned Value Magnifies Salience-Based Attentional Capture Anderson, Brian A. Laurent, Patryk A. Yantis, Steven PLoS One Research Article Visual attention is captured by physically salient stimuli (termed salience-based attentional capture), and by otherwise task-irrelevant stimuli that contain goal-related features (termed contingent attentional capture). Recently, we reported that physically nonsalient stimuli associated with value through reward learning also capture attention involuntarily (Anderson, Laurent, & Yantis, PNAS, 2011). Although it is known that physical salience and goal-relatedness both influence attentional priority, it is unknown whether or how attentional capture by a salient stimulus is modulated by its associated value. Here we show that a physically salient, task-irrelevant distractor previously associated with a large reward slows visual search more than an equally salient distractor previously associated with a smaller reward. This magnification of salience-based attentional capture by learned value extinguishes over several hundred trials. These findings reveal a broad influence of learned value on involuntary attentional capture. Public Library of Science 2011-11-21 /pmc/articles/PMC3221688/ /pubmed/22132170 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0027926 Text en Anderson et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Anderson, Brian A. Laurent, Patryk A. Yantis, Steven Learned Value Magnifies Salience-Based Attentional Capture |
title | Learned Value Magnifies Salience-Based Attentional Capture |
title_full | Learned Value Magnifies Salience-Based Attentional Capture |
title_fullStr | Learned Value Magnifies Salience-Based Attentional Capture |
title_full_unstemmed | Learned Value Magnifies Salience-Based Attentional Capture |
title_short | Learned Value Magnifies Salience-Based Attentional Capture |
title_sort | learned value magnifies salience-based attentional capture |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3221688/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22132170 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0027926 |
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