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Lien, Mei-Ching; Ruthruff, Eric; Johnston, James C. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2010
The classic theory of spatial attention hypothesized 2 modes, voluntary and involuntary. Folk, Remington, and Johnston (1992) reported that even involuntary attention capture by stimuli requires a match between stimulus properties and what the observer is looking for. This surprising conclusion has been confirmed by many subsequent studies. In…
Descriptors: Visual Stimuli, Attention Control, Spatial Ability, Visual Perception