Threat captures attention, but not automatically: Top-down goals modulate attentional orienting to threat distractors

The rapid orienting of attention to potential threats has been proposed to proceed outside of top-down control. However, paradigms that have been used to investigate this have struggled to separate the rapid orienting of attention (i.e. capture) from the later disengagement of focal attention that m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Vromen, J., Lipp, Ottmar, Remington, R., Becker, S.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Springer 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30883