scholarly journals Capture of attention by target-similar cues during dual-color search reflects reactive control among top-down selected attentional control settings

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 531-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Büsel ◽  
Ulrich Pomper ◽  
Ulrich Ansorge
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Control ◽  
Reactive Control ◽  
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Attentional Control Settings ◽  
Dual Color ◽  
Color Search

Can Self-Schemas Serve as Top-Down Attentional Control Settings

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles L. Folk ◽  
Deborah Kendzierski ◽  
Brad Wyble
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Control ◽  
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Attentional Control Settings

Tracking the Location of Visuospatial Attention in a Contingent Capture Paradigm

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 657-671 ◽  
Author(s):  
Émilie Leblanc ◽  
David J. Prime ◽  
Pierre Jolicoeur
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Capture ◽  
Attentional Control ◽  
Visuospatial Attention ◽  
Event Related Potential ◽  
Contingent Capture ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Distractor Location ◽  
Attentional Control Settings ◽  
Attentional Engagement ◽  
Considerable Controversy

Currently, there is considerable controversy regarding the degree to which top-down control can affect attentional capture by salient events. According to the contingent capture hypothesis, attentional capture by a salient stimulus is contingent on a match between the properties of the stimulus and top-down attentional control settings. In contrast, bottom-up saliency accounts argue that the initial capture of attention is determined solely by the relative salience of the stimulus, and the effect of top-down attentional control is limited to effects on the duration of attentional engagement on the capturing stimulus. In the present study, we tested these competing accounts by utilizing the N2pc event-related potential component to track the locus of attention during an attentional capture task. The results were completely consistent with the contingent capture hypothesis: An N2pc wave was elicited only by distractors that possessed the target-defining attribute. In a second experiment, we expanded upon this finding by exploring the effect of target-distractor similarity on the duration that attention dwells at the distractor location. In this experiment, only distractors possessing the target-defining attribute (color) captured visuospatial attention to their location and the N2pc increased in duration and in magnitude when the capture distractor also shared a second target attribute (category membership). Finally, in three additional control experiments, we replicated the finding of an N2pc generated by distractors, only if they shared the target-defining attribute. Thus, our results demonstrate that attentional control settings influence both which stimuli attract attention and to what extent they are processed.

Bottom-up priming of top-down attentional control settings

2008 ◽  
Vol 16 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 215-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles L. Folk ◽  
Roger W. Remington
Keyword(s):  
Attentional Control ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Attentional Control Settings

scholarly journals Top–Down Attentional Control in Parkinson's Disease: Salient Considerations

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 848-859 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roshan Cools ◽  
Robert Rogers ◽  
Roger A. Barker ◽  
Trevor W. Robbins
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Parkinson's Disease ◽  
Attentional Control ◽  
Direct Evidence ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Set Shifting ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Salient Dimension ◽  
Dimensional Salience

Cognitive dysfunction in Parkinson's disease (PD) has been hypothesized to reflect a failure of cortical control. In keeping with this hypothesis, some of the cognitive deficits in PD resemble those seen in patients with lesions in the lateral pFC, which has been associated with top–down attentional control. However, there is no direct evidence for a failure of top–down control mechanisms in PD. Here we fill this gap by demonstrating disproportionate control by bottom–up attention to dimensional salience during attentional set shifting. Patients needed significantly more trials to criterion than did controls when shifting to a low-salient dimension while, remarkably, needing significantly fewer trials to criterion than did controls when shifting to a high-salient dimension. Thus, attention was captured by bottom–up attention to salient information to a greater extent in patients than in controls. The results provide a striking reinterpretation of prior set-shifting data and provide the first direct evidence for a failure of top–down attentional control, resembling that seen after catecholamine depletion in the pFC.

Author response for "Reduced top‐down attentional control in adolescents with generalized anxiety disorder"

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannah Bashford‐Largo ◽  
Joseph Aloi ◽  
Jennie Lukoff ◽  
Kimberly Johnson ◽  
Stuart F. White ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Generalized Anxiety Disorder ◽  
Attentional Control ◽  
Author Response ◽  
Generalized Anxiety ◽  
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