ABSTRACT

Gaspelin and Luck describe the signal suppression hypothesis, which proposes that attentional suppression prevents the capture of visual attention by salient distractors. We will discuss several problems with this proposal. On a theoretical level, we will argue that attentional suppression is a dispensable mechanism. Most effects of attentional suppression can be easily explained by reduced target expectancy at the distractor location. On an empirical level, we will argue that electrophysiological evidence for attentional suppression is spurious because, in key conditions, the P_D most likely reflects idiosyncratic scan paths.

中文翻译：

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我们需要注意力抑制吗？

摘要

Gaspelin 和 Luck 描述了信号抑制假说，该假说认为注意力抑制会阻止显着干扰物捕获视觉注意力。我们将讨论这个提议的几个问题。在理论层面上，我们将论证注意力抑制是一种可有可无的机制。注意力抑制的大多数效果可以很容易地通过在干扰物位置降低目标预期来解释。在经验层面，我们会认为，为抑制注意力电的证据是虚假的，因为在关键的条件下，P _d很可能反映的特质扫描路径。