Mack Arien, Pappas Zissis, Silverman Michael, Gay Robin
Psychology Department, New School University, New York, NY, USA.
Conscious Cogn. 2002 Dec;11(4):488-506. doi: 10.1016/s1053-8100(02)00028-4.
Attention is necessary for the conscious perception of any object. Objects not attended to are not seen. What is it that captures attention when we are engaged in some attention-absorbing task? Earlier research has shown that there are only a very few stimuli which have this power and therefore are reliably detected under these conditions (for example, Mack & Rock, 1998; Moray, 1959). The two most reliable are the observer's own name and a happy face icon which seem to capture attention by virtue of their meaning. Three experiments are described which explore whether these stimuli are detected under conditions, heretofore unexamined, which either cause inattentional blindness or are associated with a perceptual failure associated with the limits of attention. The evidence obtained indicates that these stimuli have a unique capacity to capture and extend the limits of attention under conditions in which this has been deemed highly unlikely.
对任何物体的有意识感知都需要注意力。未被注意到的物体是看不见的。当我们从事一些引人入神的任务时，是什么吸引了注意力呢？早期研究表明，只有极少数刺激具有这种能力，因此在这些条件下能够被可靠地检测到（例如，Mack和Rock，1998年；Moray，1959年）。最可靠的两种刺激是观察者自己的名字和一张笑脸图标，它们似乎凭借其含义吸引了注意力。本文描述了三个实验，探讨在迄今未被研究的条件下，这些刺激是否能被检测到，这些条件要么会导致无意视盲，要么与注意力极限相关的感知失败有关。所获得的证据表明，在被认为极不可能的条件下，这些刺激具有独特的能力来吸引并扩展注意力的极限。
