Parallel distractor rejection as a binding mechanism in search

Dent, Kevin, Allen, Harriet A., Braithwaite, Jason J. and Humphreys, Glyn W. (2012) Parallel distractor rejection as a binding mechanism in search. Frontiers in Psychology, 3 (278). ISSN 1664-1078

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Abstract

The relatively common experimental visual search task of finding a red X amongst red O’s and green X’s (conjunction search) presents the visual system with a binding problem. Illusory conjunctions (ICs) of features across objects must be avoided and only features present in the same object bound together. Correct binding into unique objects by the visual system may be promoted, and ICs minimized, by inhibiting the locations of distractors possessing non-target features (e.g., Treisman and Sato, 1990). Such parallel rejection of interfering distractors leaves the target as the only item competing for selection; thus solving the binding problem. In the present article we explore the theoretical and empirical basis of this process of active distractor inhibition in search. Specific experiments that provide strong evidence for a process of active distractor inhibition in search are highlighted. In the final part of the article we consider how distractor inhibition, as defined here, may be realized at a neurophysiological level (Treisman and Sato, 1990).

Item Type: Article
RIS ID: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/711031
Schools/Departments: University of Nottingham, UK > Faculty of Science > School of Psychology
Identification Number: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00278
Depositing User: Snowden, Ms Diane
Date Deposited: 28 Mar 2014 11:46
Last Modified: 04 May 2020 16:33
URI: https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/id/eprint/2577

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