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Evaluative pressure overcomes perceptual load effects

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Perceptual load has been found to be a powerful bottom-up determinant of distractibility, with high perceptual load preventing distraction by any irrelevant information. However, when under evaluative pressure, individuals exert top-down attentional control by giving greater weight to task-relevant features, making them more distractible from task-relevant distractors. One study tested whether the top-down modulation of attention under evaluative pressure overcomes the beneficial bottom-up effect of high perceptual load on distraction. Using a response-competition task, we replicated previous findings that high levels of perceptual load suppress task-relevant distractor response interference, but only for participants in a control condition. Participants under evaluative pressure (i.e., who believed their intelligence was assessed) showed interference from task-relevant distractor at all levels of perceptual load. This research challenges the assumptions of the perceptual load theory and sheds light on a neglected determinant of distractibility: the self-relevance of the performance situation in which attentional control is solicited.

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Psychologie
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hal-02077278 , version 1 (30-03-2022)

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Alice Normand, Frédérique Autin, Jean-Claude Croizet. Evaluative pressure overcomes perceptual load effects. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 2015, 22 (3), pp.737-742. ⟨10.3758/s13423-014-0729-8⟩. ⟨hal-02077278⟩
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