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Katherine Sledge Moore¹, Elizabeth A Wiemers²

¹Department of Psychology, Arcadia University, 450 S. Easton Rd, Glenside, PA, 19038, USA. moorek@arcadia.edu.

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Training can reduce set-specific attentional capture, where one visual search target hinders another. However, these training benefits are limited and do not generalize to new contexts, suggesting attentional capture is largely immutable.

Keywords:

Attentional capture Distraction Multitasking Practice effects RSVP Set-specific capture Visual search

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Area of Science:

Cognitive psychology
Visual attention research

Background:

Multiple attentional sets in visual search can lead to significant "set-specific" capture costs.
Set-specific capture occurs when a stimulus matching one search set impairs performance on a target matching another set.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate if training can attenuate severe set-specific attentional capture effects.
To determine the generalizability of training-induced reductions in set-specific capture.

Main Methods:

Participants underwent training with varying frequencies of set switches between distractor and target stimuli.
Set-specific capture was measured before and after training using different attentional sets.
Transfer of training effects was assessed using novel color contexts and target colors.

Main Results:

Training emphasizing set switches significantly reduced set-specific capture compared to pretraining levels and control training.
These training-induced reductions did not transfer to new color contexts or single new target colors.

Conclusions:

Set-specific attentional capture is pervasive and shows limited malleability through practice.
Training effects are specific, suggesting low-level associative learning rather than broad attentional control changes.