Measuring the spread of spreading suppression: a time-course analysis of spreading suppression and its impact on attentional selection.

Journal article

We report three experiments investigating the time course of spreading suppression in visual search using preview conditions. A novel color-change procedure was employed in which a target letter changed into a new (singleton) color at various intervals after the onset of the search display. Performance when the singleton was unique across both preview and search displays was compared with that when the singleton carried the color of the preview display. Relative to the unique singleton baseli...

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Authors: Braithwaite, J; Hulleman, J; Andrews, L; Humphreys, G

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Vision research
• Volume: 50
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 346-356
• Publication date: 2010-02-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2009.11.019
• EISSN: 1878-5646
• ISSN: 0042-6989
• Language: English
• Keywords: Female; Attention; Inhibition (Psychology); Adult; Color; Humans; Adolescent; Reaction Time; Young Adult; Time Factors; Male; Visual Perception