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Watson, Derrick G.; Compton, Suzannah; Bailey, Hannah – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2011
The preview benefit describes the finding that participants can prioritize the selection of new stimuli by the top-down inhibition of previously presented (previewed) items already in the field (Watson & Humphreys, 1997). Previous work has shown that if the old items undergo a permanent shape change when the new are added, then the old items…
Descriptors: Inhibition, Visual Stimuli, Attention, Ecology