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  • Cognitive psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Visual attention

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  • Regularities in distractor locations can bias spatial priority maps, reducing attentional capture by salient singletons.
  • This distractor suppression is hypothesized to be a proactive mechanism, occurring before visual display onset.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To replicate previous findings on distractor location regularities using an online task.
  • To investigate proactive distractor suppression by examining congruence effects with congruent and incongruent distractors.
  • To determine if proactive suppression persists even when attention is directed via a top-down feature-search mode.

Main Methods:

  • Replication of the additional singleton paradigm using an online task.
  • Implementation of a congruence manipulation (congruent vs. incongruent distractors) similar to the flanker effect.
  • Two experiments: one with standard attentional capture and another employing a feature-search mode.

Main Results:

  • Experiment 1 demonstrated that statistical learning reduces interference from incongruent distractors in high-probability locations.
  • Experiment 2 showed a congruence effect only at low-probability locations, not high-probability locations, even in feature-search mode.
  • Absence of a congruence effect at high-probability locations supports the proactive nature of distractor suppression.

Conclusions:

  • Proactive distractor suppression effectively reduces attentional competition from high-probability locations.
  • This suppression mechanism operates independently of attentional control, persisting in both bottom-up and top-down search modes.
  • The findings confirm that high-probability locations compete less for attention within the spatial priority map.