The present work examines top-down shielding from distraction in visual attention; that is, under which circumstances can the intentions and goals of an observer counteract the bottom-up salience of irrelevant distractors. Several factors of influence will be considered: First, prior experience with distractors, i.e. did observers previously acquire an effective distractor shielding strategy; second, intra- vs. cross-dimensionality of distractors, i.e. are irrelevant distractors defined in the same feature dimension (e.g., shape, color) as the target or in a different feature dimension; third, time, i.e. how effective is distractor shielding early vs. later in processing; and finally, the incentive for effective distractor shielding.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:MUENCHEN/oai:edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de:17100 |
| Date | 25 June 2014 |
| Creators | Goschy, Harriet-Rosita |
| Publisher | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
| Source Sets | Digitale Hochschulschriften der LMU |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation, NonPeerReviewed |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Relation | http://edoc.ub.uni-muenchen.de/17100/ |
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