Semantic activation of target congruence contingently captures attention

Ariga Atsunori

Yokosawa Kazuhiko

基礎心理学研究

The Japanese Journal of Psychonomic Science

Contingent attentional capture occurs when a stimulus property captures an observer's attention, usually related to the observer's top-down attentional set for target-defining properties. This study examined whether contingent attentional capture occurs for a stimulus property that does not define the target by itself, but is congruent with the target-defining property. In an RSVP stream, we defined the target by a color (e.g., a green-colored Japanese Kanji character). Before the target onset we presented a distractor that referred to the target-defining color (e.g., a white-colored Kanji character with the meaning "green"). We observed that the distractor produced contingent attentional capture which was revealed by a deficit in identifying the subsequent target. This result suggested that the attentional set included congruency between the activated meaning and the target-defining color to detect the target.

contingent attentional capture

attentional set

RSVP

eng

日本基礎心理学会

Copyright 2007. The Japanese Psychonomic Sciety. All rights reserved.

日本基礎心理学会の許諾に基づき掲載しています。

[ISSN] 2188-7977

[ISSN] 0287-7651

[NCID] AN00006194

[DOI] 10.14947/psychono.KJ00004574168

[DOI] https://doi.org/10.14947/psychono.KJ00004574168