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  • Abrupt onsets are often considered highly salient stimuli.
  • This presumed high salience has been used to explain their strong attentional capture.
  • Previous research lacked consensus on defining and measuring physical salience.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explicitly quantify the physical salience of abrupt onsets, color singletons, and color singleton onsets.
  • To investigate whether the attentional capture by abrupt onsets is solely due to their physical salience.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a psychophysical technique developed by Stilwell et al. (2023) to measure physical salience.
  • Employed a visual search task to assess attentional capture and suppression.

Main Results:

  • Abrupt onsets were found to be the least salient among the tested stimuli.
  • Despite lower salience, abrupt onsets captured attention, while color singletons and singleton onsets were suppressed.
  • Attention capture by abrupt onsets was not explained by high physical salience.

Conclusions:

  • Abrupt onsets capture attention more strongly than color singletons, independent of physical salience.
  • High physical salience might facilitate stimulus suppression during visual search.
  • Rethinking the role of physical salience in attention capture is warranted.