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  • Psychology

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  • The ability to ignore physically salient distractors has been debated for 25 years.
  • Empirical evidence exists both for and against ignoring distractors.

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  • To propose predictive processing as a unified theoretical framework.
  • To explain the empirical literature on attentional capture.

Main Methods:

  • Theoretical analysis of existing empirical evidence.
  • Integration of attentional capture phenomena within predictive processing models.

Main Results:

  • Predictive processing offers a coherent explanation for attentional capture.
  • Attentional capture is viewed as a consequence of the brain's predictive mechanisms.

Conclusions:

  • The predictive processing framework unifies existing theories of attentional capture.
  • Understanding predictive mechanisms is key to understanding attentional control.