TY  - JOUR
AU  - Grabbe, Jeremy W. 
AU  - Cioffi, Tom 
AU  - Zauner, Luke T. 
AU  - Driscoll, Kerri L. 
AU  - Ford, Sean T. 
PY  - 2014
TI  - Effects of Competing Lexical Distracters in a Visual Search Task
JF  - Current Research in Psychology
VL  - 4
IS  - 2
DO  - 10.3844/crpsp.2013.16.19
UR  - https://thescipub.com/abstract/crpsp.2013.16.19
AB  - Studies have shown that distracters that are relevant to a target can negatively affect visual search performance. Recent studies have looked at performance when targets are embedded within a distracter. Various factors have been explored such as automaticity, spatial location and timing. This study asked, &#34If distracters affected a different dimension would that produce a detriment to visual search performance&#34? Would competition for attention occur if distracters were on an irrelevant dimension such as lexicality? The results of this study suggest that lexicality, as demonstrated by word frequency, is a disruptive distracter dimension. This study also showed that two distracters of different word frequencies can serve to disrupt attentional capture.