MOE Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality, School of Psychology, Southwest University, 415 Psychological Building, Beibei, 400715, Chongqing, People's Republic of China.
Psychol Res. 2010 May;74(3):268-76. doi: 10.1007/s00426-009-0252-0. Epub 2009 Aug 4.
A crucial prediction of perceptual load theory is that high perceptual load can eliminate interference from distractors. However, Lavie et al. (Psychol Sci 14:510-515, 2003) found that high perceptual load did not eliminate interference when the distractor was a face. The current experiments examined the interaction between familiarity and perceptual load in modulating interference in a name search task. The data reveal that high perceptual load eliminated the interference effect for unfamiliar distractors that were faces or objects, but did not eliminate the interference for familiar distractors that were faces or objects. Based on these results, we proposed that the processing of familiar and natural stimuli may be immune to the effect of perceptual load.
注意负载理论的一个关键预测是，高注意负载可以消除分心物的干扰。然而，Lavie 等人（Psychol Sci 14:510-515, 2003）发现，当分心物是一张脸时，高注意负载并不能消除干扰。当前的实验研究了在名称搜索任务中，熟悉度和注意负载之间的相互作用如何调节干扰。数据显示，高注意负载消除了对不熟悉的分心物（无论是人脸还是物体）的干扰效应，但没有消除对熟悉的分心物（无论是人脸还是物体）的干扰效应。基于这些结果，我们提出，对熟悉和自然刺激的处理可能不受注意负载的影响。
