The spider does not always win the fight for attention: Disengagement from threat is modulated by goal set
Stimulus-driven preferential attention to threat can be modulated by goal-driven attention. However, it remains unclear how this goal-driven modulation affects specific attentional components implied in threat interference. We hypothesise that goal-driven modulation most strongly impacts delayed dis...
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| author | Vromen, J. Lipp, Ottmar Remington, R. |
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| description | Stimulus-driven preferential attention to threat can be modulated by goal-driven attention. However, it remains unclear how this goal-driven modulation affects specific attentional components implied in threat interference. We hypothesise that goal-driven modulation most strongly impacts delayed disengagement from threat. A spatial cueing task was used that disentangles delayed disengagement from attentional capture by tightly manipulating the locus of attention at the time of target onset. Different top-down goals were induced by instructing participants to identify bird/fish targets (Experiment 1) or spider/cat targets (Experiment 2) among animal non-targets. Delayed disengagement from a non-target spider was observed only when the spider was part of the target set, not when it was task-irrelevant. This corroborates evidence that threat stimuli do not necessarily override goal-driven attentional control and that extended processing of threatening distractors is not obligatory. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-80982017-09-13T14:37:52Z The spider does not always win the fight for attention: Disengagement from threat is modulated by goal set Vromen, J. Lipp, Ottmar Remington, R. Stimulus-driven preferential attention to threat can be modulated by goal-driven attention. However, it remains unclear how this goal-driven modulation affects specific attentional components implied in threat interference. We hypothesise that goal-driven modulation most strongly impacts delayed disengagement from threat. A spatial cueing task was used that disentangles delayed disengagement from attentional capture by tightly manipulating the locus of attention at the time of target onset. Different top-down goals were induced by instructing participants to identify bird/fish targets (Experiment 1) or spider/cat targets (Experiment 2) among animal non-targets. Delayed disengagement from a non-target spider was observed only when the spider was part of the target set, not when it was task-irrelevant. This corroborates evidence that threat stimuli do not necessarily override goal-driven attentional control and that extended processing of threatening distractors is not obligatory. 2014 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8098 10.1080/02699931.2014.969198 Routledge fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Vromen, J. Lipp, Ottmar Remington, R. The spider does not always win the fight for attention: Disengagement from threat is modulated by goal set |
| title | The spider does not always win the fight for attention: Disengagement from threat is modulated by goal set |
| title_full | The spider does not always win the fight for attention: Disengagement from threat is modulated by goal set |
| title_fullStr | The spider does not always win the fight for attention: Disengagement from threat is modulated by goal set |
| title_full_unstemmed | The spider does not always win the fight for attention: Disengagement from threat is modulated by goal set |
| title_short | The spider does not always win the fight for attention: Disengagement from threat is modulated by goal set |
| title_sort | spider does not always win the fight for attention: disengagement from threat is modulated by goal set |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/8098 |