Results: Multitasking in a Visual Search Environment
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This protocol helps researchers investigate distraction while multitasking in a visual search environment. For example, say you're grocery shopping, and you're looking for a red pepper. When you apply attention to this task, you enhance the proces
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This method uses a dynamic visual display to index costs of distraction during visual search, including both "contingent attentional capture" and "set-specific capture," which is a cost of distraction that occurs when the participants maintain multiple search goals simultaneously. This method has revealed basic mechanisms and limitations of visual attention.