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The Attentional Window, Search Difficulty and Search Modes:A Reply to Commentaries on Theeuwes (2023)
No full textWith great pleasure I studied the commentaries of my esteemed colleagues to my opinion paper “The Attentional Capture Debate: When Can We avoid Salient Distractors and When Not?” (Theeuwes, 2023). I thought the comments were to-the-point and provocative and I believe that these kinds of exchanges will help the field to move forward in this debate. I discuss the most pressing concerns in separate sections where I have grouped commonly raised issues.</p
In ‘Comments on Theeuwes and Riemersma’s Revisit
No full text( 1996) comment on a paper we published in Accident Analysis and Prevention. In this paper we show that the original claim by Andersson and Nilsson ( 198 1) that the nationwide implementation of Daytime Running Lights (DRL) in Sweden resulted in a reduction of multiple daytime accidents was not warranted. We showed that when the correct statisti-cal procedures are applied, the data show no effect of DRL. Without commenting or doubting any of our statistical procedures, Williams and Farmer come to the conclusion that the implications of our study ‘DRLs are ineffective in reducing crashes ’ is not warranted. This conclusion by Williams and Farmer is unex-pected. Even though the most detailed and compre-hensive study on DRL shows no effect, Williams and Farmer want to believe otherwise. The Swedish study is considered the most comprehensive study in the world since it is the only study that provides accident data of two years before and two years after the nationwide mandatory implementation of DRL. When these data were analyzed appropriately, we showed that there was no effect of DRL. Williams and Farmer come up with a whole set of different arguments why-in spite of the fact that there was no effect in Sweden-we have to believe that DRLs are effective. First, there is supposedly a theoretical basis for a positive effect of DRL. After conducting an extensive literature review (Theeuwes and Riemersma 1990), we concluded that there was no theoretical basis for an effect of DRL during normal daylight condition. Obviously, in dusk (ambi-ent luminance level of 1000 lux or less), DRL, as an
Conscious and unconscious processing in visual spatial selection
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Guiding Attention in a Dynamic Environment
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The Time Course of Attentional Selection on the Basis of External Signals and Internal Representations
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The Effect of Experience on Visual Processing
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Stimuli, Goals, and History: The Factors that drive Overt Selection
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