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Does the attentional window shed light on the attentional capture debate?
Eric Ruthruff, Dominick A Tolomeo, Sunil Jain, Kristina-Maria Reitan, Mei-Ching Lien
Published: 202510.3758/s13414-025-03174-8
Abstract
Belopolsky et al. (2007) provided evidence that capture occurs only when objects fall within the attentional window. This attentional window hypothesis was subsequently used to explain how salient stimuli can be powerful yet often have little or no o…
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