In order to investigate underlying mechanisms of color attention, Bartsch et al measured electromagnetic brain responses in participants who were challenged to switch their attention in accordance with unpredicted target colors changes in the absence or presence of ‘distractor colors’. They demonstrated that dynamic adjustments of feature attention involve the temporally prioritized processing and elimination of distracting feature representations.
- Mandy V. Bartsch
- Christian Merkel
- Jens-Max Hopf
