Attentional control within 3-D space
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Four experiments investigated whether directing attention to a particular plane in depth enables observers to filter out information from another depth plane. Observers viewed stereoscopic displays and searched for a red line segment among green line segments. The results showed that directing attention to a particular depth plane cannot prevent attentional capture from another depth plane when the colors of the target and distractor are identical. However, it can prevent attentional capture by a singleton from another depth plane when the colors of the target and distractor are different. These results indicate that only when both color and depth information are selective in guiding attention to the target singleton can attentional capture by irrelevant singletons be prevented. The results also suggest that retinal disparity does not have the same special status as location information in two dimensions and should be considered as just another feature along which selection may occur
Topics
adolescentadultanalysis of variancearticleassociationattentioncognitioncolor visiondepth perceptionhumanorientationperceptionperceptive discriminationphysiologyAdolescentAdultAnalysis of VarianceAttentionColor PerceptionCuesDepth PerceptionDiscrimination (Psychology)HumansOrientationPerceptual MaskingVolition3dattention
TNO Identifier
16325
Source
Journal of Experimental Psychology : Human Perception and Performance, 24(5), pp. 1476 - 1485.
Pages
1476 - 1485
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