@article{ref1,
title="Individual differences in recovery time from attentional capture",
journal="Psychological science",
year="2011",
author="Fukuda, Keisuke and Vogel, Edward K.",
volume="22",
number="3",
pages="361-368",
abstract="Working memory capacity reflects a core ability of the individual that affects performance on many cognitive tasks. Recent work has suggested that an important covariate of memory capacity is attentional control, and specifically that low-capacity individuals are more susceptible to attentional capture by distractors than high-capacity individuals are, with the latter being able to resist capture. Here, we tested an alternative account according to which all individuals are equally susceptible to attentional capture, but high-capacity individuals recover more quickly than low-capacity individuals. Using psychophysical and electrophysiological methods, we measured recovery time from attentional capture. In two experiments, we found that high- and low-capacity individuals showed equivalent attentional capture effects in the initial moments following capture, but that low-capacity individuals took much longer to recover than high-capacity individuals did. These results suggest that the poor attentional control associated with low capacity is due to slow disengagement from distractors.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0956-7976",
doi="10.1177/0956797611398493",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0956797611398493"
}