Figure 6. Capture of the eye by less salient distractors.

Empirical proportion of capture by the distractor, averaged across participants, represents the proportion of first eye movements landing on the distractor position. Salience difference, averaged across participants, was derived from detection times in the baseline salience measurement requiring a simple target-present vs. target-absent decision (see Methods of Behavioral eye-tracking experiment). Negative x-values indicate distractors less salient than the target. Dots represent mean values of proportion of capture for each salience difference condition (n = 2); arrows indicate the associated standard errors.