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Filtering items of mass distraction: top-down biases directed against distracting information are necessary for the feature-based carry-over to occur

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Filtering items of mass distraction: top-down biases directed against distracting information are necessary for the feature-based carry-over to occur. / Braithwaite, Jason J; Humphreys, Glyn.
In: Vision Research, Vol. 47, No. 12, 01.06.2007, p. 1570-1583.

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Braithwaite, JJ & Humphreys, G 2007, 'Filtering items of mass distraction: top-down biases directed against distracting information are necessary for the feature-based carry-over to occur', Vision Research, vol. 47, no. 12, pp. 1570-1583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2007.02.019

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Braithwaite, J. J., & Humphreys, G. (2007). Filtering items of mass distraction: top-down biases directed against distracting information are necessary for the feature-based carry-over to occur. Vision Research, 47(12), 1570-1583. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2007.02.019

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Braithwaite JJ, Humphreys G. Filtering items of mass distraction: top-down biases directed against distracting information are necessary for the feature-based carry-over to occur. Vision Research. 2007 Jun 1;47(12):1570-1583. Epub 2007 Apr 24. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.02.019

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Braithwaite, Jason J ; Humphreys, Glyn. / Filtering items of mass distraction : top-down biases directed against distracting information are necessary for the feature-based carry-over to occur. In: Vision Research. 2007 ; Vol. 47, No. 12. pp. 1570-1583.

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title = "Filtering items of mass distraction: top-down biases directed against distracting information are necessary for the feature-based carry-over to occur",
abstract = "In preview search a new target is difficult to detect if it carries a feature shared with the old distractors [Braithwaite, J. J., Humphreys, G. W., & Hodsoll, J. (2003). Color grouping in space and time: Evidence from negative color-based carry-over effects in preview search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 29(4), 758–778.] Two experiments are presented which examined whether this negative color carry-over effect is dependent on an attentional-set to ignore old, irrelevant distractors. Consistent with this, the data show that the negative carry-over effect is greatly reduced if the attentional-set to ignore the old preview items is removed and replaced by a set to prioritize the old items instead. The findings demonstrate that preview search, and the carry-over effect, are at least partly determined by a top-down intentional bias against old, irrelevant information.",
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