Visual Distraction's "Silver Lining": Distractor Suppression Boosts Attention to Competing Stimuli.

IF 4.8 1区 心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Psychological Science Pub Date : 2023-12-01 Epub Date: 2023-10-26 DOI:10.1177/09567976231201853
Xiaojin Ma, Richard A Abrams
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Efficient search of the environment requires that people attend to the desired elements in a scene and ignore the undesired ones. Recent research has shown that this endeavor can benefit from the ability to proactively suppress distractors with known features, but little is known about the mechanisms that produce the suppression. We show here in five experiments (N = 120 college students) that, surprisingly, identification of a sought-for target is enhanced when it is grouped with a suppressed distractor compared with when it is in a different perceptual group. The results show that the suppressive mechanism not only downweights undesired elements but also enhances responses to task-relevant elements in competition for attention with the distractor, fine tuning the suppression. The findings extend the understanding of how people efficiently process their visual world.

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视觉分散注意力的“一线希望”:分散注意力的抑制增强了对竞争刺激的关注。
对环境的有效搜索要求人们关注场景中想要的元素,而忽略不想要的元素。最近的研究表明,这种努力可以受益于主动抑制具有已知特征的干扰物的能力,但对产生这种抑制的机制知之甚少。我们在五个实验中(N=120名大学生)表明,令人惊讶的是,与处于不同感知组相比,当与被抑制的干扰物分组时,对被寻找目标的识别能力会增强。结果表明,在与干扰物争夺注意力的过程中,抑制机制不仅降低了不想要的元素的权重,而且增强了对任务相关元素的反应,对抑制进行了微调。这些发现扩展了人们对如何有效处理视觉世界的理解。
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Psychological Science
Psychological Science PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
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期刊介绍: Psychological Science, the flagship journal of The Association for Psychological Science (previously the American Psychological Society), is a leading publication in the field with a citation ranking/impact factor among the top ten worldwide. It publishes authoritative articles covering various domains of psychological science, including brain and behavior, clinical science, cognition, learning and memory, social psychology, and developmental psychology. In addition to full-length articles, the journal features summaries of new research developments and discussions on psychological issues in government and public affairs. "Psychological Science" is published twelve times annually.
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