Attentional requirements in a ‘preattentive’ feature search task
Joseph J, Chun M, Nakayama K. Attentional requirements in a ‘preattentive’ feature search task. Nature 1997, 387: 805-807. PMID: 9194560, DOI: 10.1038/42940.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRapid serial visual presentation taskVisual presentation taskFeature search taskNumber of distractorsSet-size functionReaction timeAttentional resourcesAttentional requirementsDistractor itemsPresentation taskLetter identificationVisual searchSearch taskVisual systemFeature differencesSimple featuresTaskPreattentiveDistractorsDetection of differencesUnlimited capacityPerceptionItemsCertain featuresAttention