%0 Journal Article
%T Contingent Attentional Engagement: Stimulus
%A Alon Zivony
%A Dominique Lamy
%J Psychological Science
%@ 1467-9280
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0956797618799302
%X We examined whether shifting attention to a location necessarily entails extracting the features at that location, a process referred to as attentional engagement. In three spatial-cuing experiments (N = 60), we found that an onset cue captured attention both when it shared the target¡¯s color and when it did not. Yet the effects of the match between the response associated with the cued object¡¯s identity and the response associated with the target (compatibility effects), which are diagnostic of attentional engagement, were observed only with relevant-color onset cues. These findings demonstrate that stimulus- and goal-driven capture have qualitatively different consequences: Before attention is reoriented to the target, it is engaged to the location of the critical distractor following goal-driven capture but not stimulus-driven capture. The reported dissociation between attentional shifts and attentional engagement suggests that attention is best described as a camera: One can align its zoom lens without pressing the shutter button
%K attention
%K spatial perception
%K visual attention
%K selective attention
%K open data
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0956797618799302