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SUBMITTER: Gaspelin N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4977216 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gaspelin Nicholas N Ruthruff Eric E Lien Mei-Ching MC
Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance 20160208 8
Researchers are sharply divided regarding whether irrelevant abrupt onsets capture spatial attention. Numerous studies report that they do and a roughly equal number report that they do not. This puzzle has inspired numerous attempts at reconciliation, none gaining general acceptance. The authors propose that abrupt onsets routinely capture attention, but the size of observed capture effects depends critically on how long attention dwells on distractor items which, in turn, depends critically on ...[more]