We hope this work unifies our thinking about distractor suppression and provides some falsifiable hypotheses for future work! Thanks to my coauthors, Jacob Sellers, Dr. Taraz Lee, and Dr. John Jonides.
The model accounted for dramatically different spatiotemporal dynamics across conditions and generated novel predictions about how different manipulations facilitate distractor suppression in different ways.
A computational model explains these data as two priority signals with different latencies and impacts on behavior. A distractor signal can be suppressed when the target signal is ready or, alternatively, when the distractor signal itself exerts less direct impact on behavior.
This allowed us to track the entire spatiotemporal dynamics of visual attention with respect to certain stimuli. E.g.,
To address this, we applied a "forced-response" method to saccadic behavior. This method forces saccade execution while systematically varying stimulus processing time, essentially forcing subjects to express their current attentional priority.
Visual attention is often thought to be guided by a latent "priority map". But this priority map also evolves over time. The deployment of attention (e.g., an eye movement) reflects only a snapshot of this evolution over time and space.
How do people suppress salient visual distractors? Our new paper in JEP:G provides a computational framework for understanding distractor suppression. A short thread 🧵 doi.org/10.1037/xge0...
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