Environmental Volatility Shifts Visual Search from Capture to Caution
Qiu N; Allenmark F; Chen S; Müller HJ; Shi Z · 2026 · Preprint
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Abstract (excerpt)
Real-world distractors occur in environments whose states change at different rates. We asked whether such volatility alters early attentional gating or instead changes the criterion for committing to a response. Observers performed an…
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Metadata source: Europe PMC · DOI 10.64898/2026.05.08.723763