TY - JOUR AU - Mathôt, Sebastiaan AU - Theeuwes, Jan PY - 2012/05/02 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - It's all about the transient: Intra-saccadic onset stimuli do not capture attention JF - Journal of Eye Movement Research JA - JEMR VL - 5 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.16910/jemr.5.2.4 UR - https://bop.unibe.ch/JEMR/article/view/2331 SP - AB - An abrupt onset stimulus was presented while the participants' eyes were in motion. Because of saccadic suppression, participants did not perceive the visual transient that normally accompanies the sudden appearance of a stimulus. In contrast to the typical finding that the presentation of an abrupt onset captures attention and interferes with the participants' responses, we found that an intra-saccadic abrupt onset does not capture attention: It has no effect beyond that of increasing the set-size of the search array by one item. This finding favours the local transient account of attentional capture over the novel object hypothesis. ER -