Foxes, hedgehogs, and attentional capture

Clayton Hickey; Wieske van Zoest

doi:10.1080/13506285.2021.1918812

Foxes, hedgehogs, and attentional capture

Clayton Hickey, Wieske van Zoest

Psychology

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Isaiah Berlin famously suggested that thinkers can be characterized into two groups, foxes and hedgehogs. Foxes multiply ideas, hedgehogs stretch them. Hedgehoggy thinking, based around core universal principles, has historically dominated capture research and is prominent in Luck, S. J., Gaspelin, N., Folk, C. L., Remington, R. W., & Theeuwes, J. (2021. Progress toward resolving the attentional capture debate. Visual Cognition, 29(1), 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2020.1848949). However, results increasingly suggest that attentional control is complicated and messy. There is a need for careful identification of neural bases and the development of incremental, contextual theory, i.e. there is a need for foxy thinking.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	596-599
Journal	Visual Cognition
Volume	29
Issue number	9
Early online date	28 Sept 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2021.1918812
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 28 Sept 2021

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Attention
capture
control

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This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Visual Cognition. Clayton Hickey & Wieske van Zoest (2021) Foxes, hedgehogs, and attentional capture, Visual Cognition, DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2021.1918812. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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