Foulsham, Tom and Underwood, Geoffrey (2009) Does conspicuity enhance distraction? Saliency and eye landing position when searching for objects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62 (6). pp. 1088-1098. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/17470210802602433
Foulsham, Tom and Underwood, Geoffrey (2009) Does conspicuity enhance distraction? Saliency and eye landing position when searching for objects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62 (6). pp. 1088-1098. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/17470210802602433
Foulsham, Tom and Underwood, Geoffrey (2009) Does conspicuity enhance distraction? Saliency and eye landing position when searching for objects. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 62 (6). pp. 1088-1098. DOI https://doi.org/10.1080/17470210802602433
Abstract
While visual saliency may sometimes capture attention, the guidance of eye movements in search is often dominated by knowledge of the target. How is the search for an object influenced by the saliency of an adjacent distractor? Participants searched for a target amongst an array of objects, with distractor saliency having an effect on response time and on the speed at which targets were found. Saliency did not predict the order in which objects in target-absent trials were fixated. The within-target landing position was distributed around a modal position close to the centre of the object. Saliency did not affect this position, the latency of the initial saccade, or the likelihood of the distractor being fixated, suggesting that saliency affects the allocation of covert attention and not just eye movements.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Visual search; Saliency; Eye movements; Attention |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Psychology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 12 Nov 2011 19:55 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 16:11 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/1222 |