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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Visual Attention
  • Perceptual Control

Background:

  • Proactive cognitive control allows individuals to anticipate and prepare for upcoming tasks.
  • Selective attention mechanisms are crucial for filtering irrelevant information in complex visual environments.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the feasibility of on-demand proactive suppression of visual distractors.
  • To determine if distractor suppression can be initiated proactively based on cued information.
  • To examine the impact of distractor variability on proactive suppression efficiency.

Main Methods:

  • Participants performed a visual search task with cued distractor colors.
  • A probe letter recall task assessed the effectiveness of distractor suppression.
  • Distractor color predictability was manipulated across experiments.

Main Results:

  • A probe suppression effect was observed when the distractor color was fixed.
  • This effect disappeared when the distractor color varied trial-to-trial.
  • Evidence against the 'search and destroy' hypothesis was found, indicating no initial search for the distractor color.

Conclusions:

  • Proactive suppression of distractors is not possible on demand when the distractor identity varies.
  • Reactive distractor processing is employed when suppression cannot be proactive, resulting in performance costs.
  • Cognitive control mechanisms for distractor rejection are context-dependent and influenced by predictability.