Attentional suppression is in place before display onset

Huang, C.; Donk, Mieke; Theeuwes, Jan

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Attentional suppression is in place before display onset

2023Journal article

dc.contributor.author	Huang, C.
dc.contributor.author	Donk, Mieke
dc.contributor.author	Theeuwes, Jan
dc.date.accessioned	2024-07-10T12:23:21Z
dc.date.available	2024-07-10T12:23:21Z
dc.date.issued	2023
dc.description.abstract	Recent studies have shown that observers can learn to suppress a location that is most likely to contain a distractor. The current study investigates whether the statistically learned suppression is already in place, before, or implemented exactly at the moment participants expect the display to appear. Participants performed a visual search task in which a distractor was presented more frequently at the high-probability location (HPL) in a search display. Occasionally, the search display was replaced by a probe display in which participants needed to detect a probe ofset. The temporal relationship between the probe display and the search display was manipulated by varying the stimulus onset asynchronies (SOAs) in the probe task. In this way, the attentional distribution in space was probed before, exactly at, or after the moment when the search display was expected to be presented. The results showed a statistically learned suppression at the HPL, as evidenced by faster and more accurate search when a distractor was presented at this location. Crucially, irrespective of the SOA, probe detection was always slower at the HPL than at the low-probability locations, indicating that the spatial suppression induced by statistical learning is proactively implemented not just at the moment the display is expected, but prior to display onset. We conclude that statistical learning afects the weights within the priority map relatively early in time, well before the availability of the search display	pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citation	Huang, C., Donk, M., & Theeuwes, J. (2023). Attentional suppression is in place before display onset. Attention, Perception, and Psychophysics, 85(4), 1012–1020. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13414-023-02704-6	pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi	10.3758/s13414-023-02704-6	pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn	1943393X
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/9839
dc.language.iso	eng	pt_PT
dc.peerreviewed	yes	pt_PT
dc.publisher	Springer New York	pt_PT
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/	pt_PT
dc.subject	Statistical learning	pt_PT
dc.subject	Visual selection	pt_PT
dc.subject	Distractor suppression	pt_PT
dc.title	Attentional suppression is in place before display onset	pt_PT
dc.type	journal article
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oaire.citation.conferencePlace	United States	pt_PT
oaire.citation.endPage	1020	pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue	4	pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage	1012	pt_PT
oaire.citation.title	Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics	pt_PT
oaire.citation.volume	85	pt_PT
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