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  • Visual Perception
  • Attention Studies

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  • The role of attentional resources in suppressing irrelevant visual features is debated.
  • Prior research suggested suppression is unavailable when cognitive load is high.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether proactive suppression of visual distractors requires attentional resources during dual-tasking.
  • To provide behavioral evidence supporting or refuting the resource-dependence of suppression.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed a rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) task followed by a visual search task.
  • The capture-probe paradigm assessed suppression of distractor visual features at different lags (Lag 2 and Lag 8).

Main Results:

  • Proactive suppression, indicated by reduced probe recall at distractor locations, was observed at both Lag 2 and Lag 8.
  • Suppression effectiveness did not differ significantly between the two lags, suggesting intact suppression during dual-tasking.

Conclusions:

  • Proactive visual suppression is an implicit process that does not deplete attentional resources.
  • Reactive suppression may require attentional resources, but proactive suppression operates independently.