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    Local item density modulates adaptation of learned contextual cues

    Annac, Efsun and Conci, Markus and Muller, Hermann J. and Geyer, Thomas (2017) Local item density modulates adaptation of learned contextual cues. Visual Cognition 25 (1-3), pp. 262-277. ISSN 1350-6285.

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    Abstract

    In everyday scenes, searched-for targets do not appear in isolation, but are embedded within configurations of non-target or distractor items. If the position of the target relative to the distractors is invariant, such spatial contingencies are implicitly learned and come to guide visual scanning ("contextual cueing"). However, the effectiveness of contextual cueing depends heavily on the consistency between bottom-up perceptual input and context memory: following configural learning, re-locating targets to an unexpected location within an unchanged distractor context completely abolishes contextual cueing, and gains deriving from the invariant context recover only very slowly with increasing exposure to the changed displays. The current study induces variations of the local target context, i.e., item density, to investigate the relation between this factor and contextual adaptation. The results showed that learned contextual cues can be adapted quickly if the target is re-positioned to a sparse ...

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    Item Type: Article
    Additional Information: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis, available online at the link above.
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Contextual cueing, implicit memory, multiple target location learning, spatial grouping, visual search
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences
    Depositing User: Hermann Muller
    Date Deposited: 15 Mar 2018 14:57
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:40
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/21578

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