ABSTRACT

Luck, Gaspelin, Folk, Remington, & Theeuwes [(in press). Progress Toward Resolving the Attentional Capture Debate. Visual Cognition] proposes that proactive attentional mechanisms suppress a salient distractor by top-down inhibitory signals. However, considering the abundance of distracting information surrounding us, an automatic and passive distractor filtering system that requires little cognitive resources would benefit. Recent studies showed that passive exposure to distractors (without any competition with a target) before a search task attenuates interference from distractors during the actual visual search, called passive distractor filtering, and suggested that habituation is its core mechanism. This commentary summarizes research on passive distractor filtering, discusses habituation processes, and proposes future directions.

摘要

Luck、Gaspelin、Folk、Remington 和 Theeuwes [（印刷中）。解决注意力捕获争论的进展。视觉认知] 提出主动注意机制通过自上而下的抑制信号抑制显着的干扰因素。然而，考虑到我们周围的大量干扰信息，需要很少认知资源的自动和被动干扰过滤系统将受益。最近的研究表明，在搜索任务之前被动暴露于干扰物（与目标没有任何竞争）会减弱实际视觉搜索过程中干扰物的干扰，称为被动干扰物过滤，并表明习惯是其核心机制。这篇评论总结了被动干扰过滤的研究，讨论了习惯化过程，并提出了未来的方向。