id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt kp78gf08q9q Adam Thomas Biggs The Benefits of Distractors: Search Strategy Can Influence Attentional Allocation 2010 .txt text/plain 145 7 30 Recently, Biggs and Gibson (2010) provided evidence that distractor interference depended upon the context of the task, suggesting top-down effects were responsible for distractor interference. Our findings suggest that top-down mechanisms can increase or decrease interference produced by irrelevant information depending on how this information is incorporated into visual search. cache/kp78gf08q9q.txt txt/kp78gf08q9q.txt