@article{ref1,
title="Absence of attentional capture in parallel search is possible: A failure to replicate attentional capture in a non-singleton target search task",
journal="Attention, perception and psychophysics",
year="2011",
author="Wienrich, Carolin and Janczyk, Markus",
volume="73",
number="7",
pages="2044-2052",
abstract="The notion of a singleton versus a feature search mode (Bacon & Egeth, 1994) in visual search is generally widely accepted. Yet Theeuwes (2004) claimed a different, potentially more parsimonious position. He suggested that the size of an attentional window is under top-down control and that salient distractors within this window capture attention. We report on four experiments. The first two experiments represent our various initial attempts to replicate the crucial Experiment 1 in the Theeuwes (2004) study, all of which were not successful. In Experiment 3, we showed that our distractor was able to yield attentional capture in a situation promoting the use of the singleton search mode (Bacon & Egeth, 1994). Experiment 4 was similar to Experiment 1 but incorporated further details that may account for the discrepant findings. Still, no attentional capture was found. In sum, it was not possible to replicate a crucial piece of evidence for the attentional window hypothesis, and our results are more consistent with the assumption of two different search modes.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1943-3921",
doi="10.3758/s13414-011-0183-x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-011-0183-x"
}