MECHANISMS OF ATTENTIONAL PRIORITY
MECHANISMS OF ATTENTIONAL PRIORITY
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DOI:
10.1037/0096-1523.16.4.812
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发表时间:
1990-11-01
影响因子:
2.1
通讯作者:
JOHNSON, DN
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作者:
YANTIS, S;JOHNSON, DN
When a single abrupt onset occurs in a multielement visual display, it captures attention, possibly by generating an attentional interrupt that designates onsets as being of high priority. In 3 experiments, the mechanisms subserving attentional priority setting were investigated. Subjects searched for a prespecified target letter among multiple distractor letters, half of which had abrupt onsets and half of which did not. The target, when present, was equally often an onset element and a no-onset element. Several models for attentional priority, differing in how many onset elements have priority over no-onset elements, were assessed. The data support a model in which approximately 4 onset stimuli are processed before any no-onset stimuli are processed. Two attentional priority mechanisms are proposed:(a) queuing of a limited number of high-priority elements and (b) temporally modulated decay of attentional priority tags.