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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Salient objects can disrupt performance, leading to the hypothesis that individuals learn to proactively suppress them.
  • Previous research suggested that the PD measure indicates proactive suppression, increasing with distractor salience.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To test the hypothesis that high visual salience triggers proactive suppression.
  • To investigate whether established behavioral suppression measures are influenced by distractor salience.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed a visual search task for a target among distractors of varying salience.
  • The capture-probe paradigm was used to assess suppression by measuring probe recall accuracy at distractor locations.
  • Two experiments were conducted, with the second addressing potential floor effects.

Main Results:

  • Neither experiment found evidence that high-salient colors were more strongly suppressed than low-salient colors.
  • Probe recall accuracy did not differ significantly based on distractor salience.

Conclusions:

  • The findings do not support the hypothesis that visual salience directly causes proactive suppression.
  • It is proposed that the PD measure may reflect both proactive and reactive suppression mechanisms.