How does mind-wandering affect distractor suppression?

The current study examined whether the suppression of overt attention to a salient distractor requires attentional resources. In a feature-search task, participants searched for a constant shape among different shapes while ignoring a uniquely coloured distractor. Trial-by-trial fluctuations in atte...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Publicado en:Visual Cognition Vol. 32; no. 9/10; pp. 1027 - 1045
Autores principales: Zhang, Han, Miller, Kevin F., Jonides, John
Formato: research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Oct-Dec2024
Acceso en línea:Ver este registro en EBSCOhost
fields @attributes:
  recordID: 1
pdfLink:
plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=186083266&site=ehost-live
header:
  @attributes:
    shortDbName: ccm
    uiTerm: 186083266
    longDbName: CINAHL Complete
    uiTag: AN
  controlInfo:
    bkinfo:
    dissinfo:
    jinfo:
      jid:
        13506285
        BE5
      jtl: Visual Cognition
      issn: 13506285
      maglogo: N
    pubinfo:
      dt: Oct-Dec2024
      vid: 32
      iid: 9/10
      pid: 377
      pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd
      place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    artinfo:
      ui:
        186083266
        179162980
        186083266
        186083266
        10.1080/13506285.2024.2347605
        186083266
      ppf: 1027
      ppct: 18
      formats:
      tig:
        atl: How does mind-wandering affect distractor suppression?
      aug:
        au:
          Zhang, Han
          Miller, Kevin F.
          Jonides, John
        affil: Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
      sug:
        subj:
          Attention Evaluation
          Wandering Behavior Evaluation
          Eye Movement Measurements
          Color Perception Physiology
          Task Performance and Analysis Evaluation
          Oculomotor Muscles Physiology
          Distraction Evaluation
          Human
          Male
          Female
          Adolescence
          Young Adult
          Funding Source
          Memory Evaluation
          Cognition Evaluation
          Reaction Time
          Visual Perception Evaluation
          Pupil Physiology
          Power Analysis
          Repeated Measures
          Michigan
          Questionnaires
          Time Factors
          Analysis of Variance
          Probability
          T-Tests
          Confidence Intervals
          Null Hypothesis
          Descriptive Statistics
          Data Analysis Software
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
          Male
          Female
      ab: The current study examined whether the suppression of overt attention to a salient distractor requires attentional resources. In a feature-search task, participants searched for a constant shape among different shapes while ignoring a uniquely coloured distractor. Trial-by-trial fluctuations in attentional resources were assessed via thought probes that elicited mind-wandering reports and via pre-trial pupil sizes. The results show that initial eye movements to the distractor were suppressed regardless of the availability of attentional resources. However, when mind-wandering, the presence of the distractor prolonged target looking time. Thus, the initial deployment of overt attention in this task does not require attentional resources and can proceed automatically, presumably due to strong selection history. Nonetheless, the distractor might still disrupt later processing stages, an effect exacerbated by mind-wandering. These results also suggest that initial eye movements do not fully reflect the extent of distractor interference during the entire course of visual search.
      pubtype: Academic Journal
      doctype:
        research
        tables/charts
        Journal Article
      ougenre: Article
    language: English
    refInfo:
    holdings:
      @attributes:
        islocal: N