Visual search may be disrupted by the presentation of salient, but irrelevant stimuli. To reduce the impact of salient distractors, attention may suppress their processing below baseline level. While there are many studies on the attentional suppression of distractors with features distinct from the target (e.g., a color distractor with a shape target), there is little and inconsistent evidence for attentional suppression with distractors sharing the target feature. In this study, distractor and target were temporally separated in a cue–target paradigm, where the cue was shown briefly before the target display. With target-matching cues, RTs were shorter when the cue appeared at the target location (valid cues) compared with when it appeared at a nontarget location (invalid cues). To induce attentional suppression, we presented the cue more frequently at one out of four possible target positions. We found that invalid cues appearing at the high-frequency cue position produced less interference than invalid cues appearing at a low-frequency cue position. Crucially, target processing was also impaired at the high-frequency cue position, providing strong evidence for attentional suppression of the cued location. Overall, attentional suppression of the frequent distractor location could be established through feature-based attention, suggesting that feature-based attention may guide attentional suppression just as it guides attentional enhancement.

视觉搜索可能会受到明显但无关的刺激的干扰。为了减少显着干扰物的影响，请注意将其处理抑制在基线水平以下。尽管有很多关于干扰抑制器的注意力抑制特征的研究（例如，具有形状目标的颜色干扰器），但是关于干扰抑制器共享目标特征的注意抑制的证据很少且不一致。在这项研究中，干扰项和目标项在提示目标范式中暂时分开，提示在目标显示之前短暂显示。使用目标匹配提示，当提示出现在目标位置（有效提示）时，RT会短于出现在非目标位置的提示（无效提示）。为了引起注意抑制，我们在四个可能的目标位置之一中更频繁地显示提示。我们发现，出现在高频提示位置的无效提示比出现在低频提示位置的无效提示产生的干扰更少。至关重要的是，高频提示位置上的目标处理也受到了损害，这为注意力抑制提示位置提供了有力的证据。总体而言，可以通过基于特征的注意力建立对频繁干扰者位置的注意力抑制，这表明基于特征的注意力可以指导注意力抑制，就像它可以指导注意力增强一样。至关重要的是，高频提示位置上的目标处理也受到了损害，这为注意力抑制提示位置提供了有力的证据。总体而言，可以通过基于特征的注意力建立对频繁干扰者位置的注意力抑制，这表明基于特征的注意力可以指导注意力抑制，就像它可以指导注意力增强一样。至关重要的是，高频提示位置上的目标处理也受到了损害，这为注意力抑制提示位置提供了有力的证据。总体而言，可以通过基于特征的注意力建立对频繁干扰者位置的注意力抑制，这表明基于特征的注意力可以指导注意力抑制，就像它可以指导注意力增强一样。