A5.07

Attentional capture

Cards in this group · 6

  1. A5.07.1Sudden onset and motion automatically capture attention
  2. A5.07.2Captured attention takes time to return
  3. A5.07.3Frequent capture leads users to actively block out that region
  4. A5.07.4The larger the salience gap, the harder capture is to suppress
  5. A5.07.5Bottom-up capture happens early in processing, before content is semantically identified
  6. A5.07.6A task-irrelevant, highly salient element keeps consuming attentional resources, even once known to be irrelevant