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Competition for feature selection
Hannus, Aave
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Hannus, A. (2017). Competition for feature selection: Action-related and stimulus-driven competitive biases in visual search. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen.
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Competition
for Feature Selection
The thesis has been supported by an Ubbo Emmius scholarship from the School of Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Groningen, the Neth-erlands. The experiments were carried out at (1) the Heymans Institute for Psy-chological Reseach of the Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, (2) the Laboratory for Experimental Ophthal-mology of the University Medical Center of Groningen, University of Gronin-gen, the Netherlands, and (3) the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
The author gratefully acknowledges the financial support for printing this thesis by the Professor Mulder Stichting.
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ISBN: 978-90-367-9937-9 (print) ISBN: 978-90-367-9936-2 (digital) © 2017 by Aave Hannus
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Competition for
Feature Selection
Action-Related and Stimulus-Driven Competitive Biases in Visual Search
Proefschrift
ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen
op gezag van de
rector magnificus prof. dr. E. Sterken en volgens besluit van het College voor Promoties.
De openbare verdediging zal plaatsvinden op woensdag 20 september 2017 om 12.45 uur
door
Aave Hannus
geboren op 24 december 1974 te Tallinn, Estland
Promotores
Prof. dr. H. Bekkering Prof. dr. F.W. Cornelissen Beoordelingscommissie Prof. dr. A.C. Kooijman Prof. dr. J.L. Theeuwes Prof. dr. J. Allik
Contents
CHAPTER 1. Introduction 1
1.1 Attentional selection 2
1.2 Visual search: Exploratory behavior and research paradigm 9
1.3 Modulation of selective visual attention 12
1.4 Issues and outline of the thesis 18
CHAPTER 2. Selection-for-action in visual search 23
2.1 Introduction 25
2.2 Experiment 1 29
2.3 Experiment 2 36
2.4 General discussion 40
CHAPTER 3. Visual selection is modulated by action intention 45
3.1 Introduction 47
3.2 Experiment 51
3.3 Discussion 55
CHAPTER 4. Some features are more equal than others 61
4.1 Introduction 63 4.2 Experiment 1 65 4.3 Experiment 2 71 4.4 Experiment 3 74 4.5 General discussion 78 4.6 Conclusions 83
CHAPTER 5. Asymmetrical effects of feature precueing 85
5.1 Introduction 87 5.2 Experiment 1 91 5.3 Experiment 2 100 5.4 General discussion 108 5.5 Conclusions 110 CHAPTER 6. Epilogue 111 6.1 Summary of findings 113 6.2 Conclusions 116 6.3 Future perspectives 117 Bibliography 121
Appendix A: Supplementary material of Chapter 4 141
English summary 149 Nederlandse samenvatting 151 Eestikeelne kokkuvõte 153 Acknowledgements 157 Biography 159 vi
