Figure 1
Previous studies showing guidance toward the target shape, which seems indicates that featural information was not filtered by focusing attention as claimed by the attentional window account. (A) First eye movements from Gaspelin et al. (2017, Exp. 3) clearly showed a bias toward the target shape above levels of the other nonsingleton distractors. Specifically, the heat map shows that the vast majority of first saccades went to the target location. (B) ERPs from Stillwell et al. (2022, Exp. 2) show clear evidence of an N2pc elicited by the target shape, suggesting that the target shape was preferentially attended compared to other shapes.
Figure 2
Search displays and search slopes for (A) Wang and Theeuwes (2020) and (B) Gaspelin et al (2015). Both searches produced steep slopes indicative of a difficult search. Yet, these studies obtained differing results regarding attentional capture by a salient distractor.