Hi Indrajeet,

this would be reasonable starting points:

Peterson, S. E., & Posner, M. I. (2012). The Attention System of the Human Brain: 20 Years After. Annual review of neuroscience, 35(1), 73-89. doi:10.1146/annurev-neuro-062111-150525

Shultz, S., Klin, A., & Jones, W. (2011). Inhibition of eye blinking reveals subjective perceptions of stimulus salience. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 108(52), 21270-21275.

Best,

Nico

Two widely cited papers that basically launched this research are:

Yantis, Steven & Jonides, John (1984). Abrupt visual onsets and selective attention: Evidence from visual search. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 10(5), 601-621.

Yantis, Steven & Jonides, John (1990). Abrupt visual onsets and selective attention: Voluntary versus automatic allocation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 16(1), 121-134.

The attached article is a brief review of the early work on the subject.

Hope this helps.

Hi Indrajeet,

You may find these interesting if you have not already seen them. They discuss such phenomena as "Lag-1 Deficit" and "Lag-0 Sparing" which may be applicable to your investigation.

Bay, M., Wyble, B. (2014). The benefit of attention is not diminished when distributed over two simultaneous cues. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 76, 1287-1297.

Jefferies, L., Enns, J. T., & Lollo, V. D. (2017). The exogenous and endogenous control of attentional focusing. Psychological Research, 1–18.

Best regards,

Eben

Dear Indrajeet,

The information provided in Appendix 1 and 2 in Volume 2 of the following thesis will be of assistance: http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/30198/

I hope that this will be of help, as it will assist to fill in some of the key gaps.

Wishing you all the very best,

Bruce Hilliard

I am grateful to all the scientists for their generous help in the form of guidance. Thanks a lot.

Hi Indrajeet,

Here are a few I've found to be super helpful in my work using a modified attentional blink paradigm to observe capture:

Folk, C. L., Leber, A. B., & Egeth, H. E. (2002). Made you blink! Contingent attentional capture produces a spatial blink. Perception & Psychophysics, 64(5), 741–753.

Folk, C. L., Leber, A. B., & Egeth, H. E. (2008). Top-down control settings and the attentional blink: Evidence for nonspatial contingent capture. Visual Cognition, 16(5), 616–642.

Theeuwes, J. (2010). Top-down and bottom-up control of visual selection. Acta Psychologica, 135(2), 77–99.

Wyble, B., Folk, C. L., & Potter, M. (2013). Contingent attentional capture by conceptually relevant images. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 39(3), 861–871.