Contextual cueing in co-active visual search: Joint action allows acquisition of task-irrelevant context

Zang, Xuelian; Zinchenko, Artyom; Wu, Jiao; Zhu, Xiuna; Fang, Fang; Shi, Zhuanghua

doi:10.3758/s13414-022-02470-x

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“…The contextual cueing effect is difficult to be observed when a target and distractors are separated by color (Jiang & Chun, 2001 ; Jiang & Leung, 2005 ; Vadillo et al, 2020 ). Zang et al ( 2022 ) recently overcame these two limitations. Participant pairs searched for different targets (i.e., a black T and a white T) among black and white Ls in each trial.…”

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“…However, the target color assignment for a specific configuration remained consistent throughout the learning phase. In the middle of the experiment, unbeknownst to the participants, Zang et al ( 2022 ) swapped the instruction words for each configuration; that is, the participant was asked to search for a white T in the configuration in which they had searched for a black T and vice versa. As a result, the contextual cueing effect was found after swapping the instruction words.…”

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Visual memory of a co-actor’s target during joint search

Sakata

Ueda

Moriguchi

2023

Psychological Research

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Studies on joint action show that when two actors turn-takingly attend to each other’s target that appears one at a time, a partner’s target is accumulated in memory. However, in the real world, actors may not be certain that they attend to the same object because multiple objects often appear simultaneously. In this study, we asked participant pairs to search for different targets in parallel from multiple objects and investigated the memory of a partner’s target. We employed the contextual cueing paradigm, in which repetitive search forms associative memory between a target and a configuration of distractors that facilitates search. During the learning phase, exemplars of three target categories (i.e., bird, shoe, and tricycle) were presented among unique objects, and participant pairs searched for them. In Experiment 1, it was followed by a memory test about target exemplars. Consequently, the partner’s target was better recognized than the target that nobody searched for. In Experiments 2a and 2b, the memory test was replaced with the transfer phase, where one individual from the pair searched for the category that nobody had searched for while the other individual searched for the category the partner had searched for in the learning phase. The transfer phase did not show search facilitation underpinned by associative memory between the partner’s target and distractors. These results suggest that when participant pairs search for different targets in parallel, they accumulate the partner’s target in memory but may not form its associative memory with the distractors that facilitates its search. Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00426-023-01819-7.

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