The time course of salience
Not entirely caused by salience
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21532830 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander Kruger (0000-0001-5725-2362, Paderborn University, corresponding author), Ingrid Scharlau (0000-0003-2364-9489, Paderborn University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 86 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 234-251 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0340-0727 • E-ISSN: 1430-2772 |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s00426-020-01470-6 |
| PMID | 33599818 |
| OpenAlex | W3133082330 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 88 |
Visual salience is a key component of attentional selection, the process that guards the scarce resources needed for conscious recognition and perception. In previous works, we proposed a measure of visual salience based on a formal theory of visual selection. However, the strength of visual salience depends on the time course as well as local physical contrasts. Evidence from multiple experimental designs in the literature suggests that the strength of salience rises initially and declines after approximately 150 ms. The present article amends the theory-based salience measure beyond local physical contrasts to the time course of salience. It does so through a first experiment which reveals that—contrary to expectations—salience is not reduced during the first 150 ms after onset. Instead, the overall visual processing capacity is severely reduced, which corresponds to a reduced processing speed of all stimuli in the visual field. A second experiment confirms this conclusion by replicating the result. We argue that the slower stimulus processing may have been overlooked previously because the attentional selection mechanism had not yet been modeled in studies on the time course of salience
Cognitive psychology · Perception · Visual field · Visual perception · Visual processing · Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies · Neuroscience · Psychology · Social Psychology · Visual Attention and Saliency Detection · Visual perception and processing mechanisms
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |