Hot off the press in a special issue at CABN! Here, Brian A. Anderson and I show that suppressing salient distractors is more effortful when the distractors are less salient: It's easier to suppress more salient distractors!
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Signal suppression makes search less effortful - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience
Physically salient stimuli compete for attention but can be suppressed under certain conditions. Highly salient distractors can be suppressed more efficiently than less salient ones. However, the impl...
