Perceptual selectivity for color and form JAN THEEUWES

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  • JAN THEEUWES
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Three visual-search experiments tested whether the preattentive parallel stage can~=seleet-ively guide the attentive stage to a particular known-to-be-relevant target feature. Subjects searched multielement displays for a salient green circle that had a unique form when surrounded by green nontarget squares or had a unique color when surrounded by red nontarget circles. In the distractor conditions, a salient item in the other dimension was present as well. As an extension of earlier findings (Theeuwes, 1991), the results showed that complete top-down selectivity toward a particular feature was not possible, not even after extended and consistent practice. The results reveal that selectivity depends on the relative discriminability of the stimulus dimensions: the presence of an irrelevant item with a unique color interferes withparallel search for a unique form, and vice versa.

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تاریخ انتشار 2003