Probing attentional modulation of contextual cueing

Ogawa, Hirokazu; Takeda, Yuji; Kumada, Takatsune

doi:10.1080/13506280600756977

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“…In fact, comparable costs of shifting in contextual cueing have been reported by Chua and Chun (2003), who systematically changed the viewpoint on a given display from initial learning to subsequent testing. On the other hand, combining a probe detection task with contextual cueing, Ogawa, Takeda, and Kumada (2007) recently showed that context-based learning not only facilitates the target location, but also inhibits nontarget locations. Accordingly, reduced contextual cueing after a (predictable) location change might also be explicable (at least to some degree) by inhibition that persists at the previous non-target location after it has become the relevant, target location (see also Makovski & Jiang, 2010).…”

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Contextual remapping in visual search after predictable target-location changes

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Sun

Müller

2010

Psychological Research

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Invariant spatial context can facilitate visual search. For instance, detection of a target is faster if it is presented within a repeatedly encountered, as compared to a novel, layout of nontargets, demonstrating a role of contextual learning for attentional guidance ('contextual cueing'). Here, we investigated how context-based learning adapts to target location (and identity) changes. Three experiments were performed in which, in an initial learning phase, observers learned to associate a given context with a given target location. A subsequent test phase then introduced identity and/or location changes to the target. The results showed that contextual cueing could not compensate for target changes that were not 'predictable' (i.e. learnable). However, for predictable changes, contextual cueing remained effective even immediately after the change. These findings demonstrate that contextual cueing is adaptive to predictable target location changes. Under these conditions, learned contextual associations can be effectively 'remapped' to accommodate new task requirements.

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Contextual remapping in visual search after predictable target-location changes

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Müller

2010

Psychological Research

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“…Thus, the distractors would, pictorially, fade into the background, thus rendering the target more salient. Empirical support for such an explanation may come from a recent study, in which probe dots presented at target or distractor locations were detected faster at repeated target locations, but more slowly at repeated distractor locations, compared with the respective locations in novel displays (Ogawa, Takeda, & Kumada, 2007).…”

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Misleading contextual cues: How do they affect visual search?

Manginelli

Pollmann

2008

Psychological Research

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Contextual cueing occurs when repetitions of the distractor configuration are implicitly learned. This implicit learning leads to faster search times in repeated displays. Here, we investigated how search adapts to a change of the target location in old displays from a consistent location in the learning phase to a consistent new location in the transfer phase. In agreement with the literature, contextual cueing was accompanied by fewer fixations, a more efficient scan path and, specifically, an earlier onset of a monotonic gaze approach phase towards the target location in repeated displays. When the repeated context was no longer predictive of the old target location, search times and number of fixations for old displays increased to the level of novel displays. Along with this, scan paths for old and new displays became equally efficient. After the target location change, there was a bias of exploration towards the old target location, which soon disappeared. Thus, change of implicitly learned spatial relations between target and distractor configuration eliminated the advantageous effects of contextual cueing, but did not lead to a lasting impairment of search in repeated displays relative to novel displays.

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“…This difference did not affect the pattern of the results: The removal of consistency increased RTs in both experiments, suggesting that the critical period for the contextual cuing to be effective is between 1 sec before the onset of the visual display and the actual onset. Although we have insufficient evidence to determine the time course of the contextual cuing effect, a recent study on the visual contextual cuing effect showed that the effect develops at least about 300 msec following the onset of the contextual information (Ogawa, Takeda, & Kumada, 2007). Ogawa et al modified an ordinary spatial contextual cuing procedure so that, in some trials, the participants had to detect a probe dot that appeared either on a target or on a distractor location.…”

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Auditory-visual contextual cuing effect

Kawahara

2007

Perception & Psychophysics

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Under incidental learning conditions, a spatial layout can be acquired implicitly and facilitate visual searches (the contextual cuing effect). Whereas previous studies have shown a cuing effect in the visual domain, the present study examined whether a contextual cuing effect could develop from association between auditory events and visual target locations (Experiments 1 and 2). In the training phase, participants searched for a T among Ls, preceded by 2 sec of auditory stimulus. The target location could be predicted from the preceding auditory stimulus. In the test phase, the auditory-visual association pairings were disrupted. The results revealed that a contextual cuing effect occurs by auditory-visual association. Participants did not notice the auditory-visual association. Experiment 3 explored a boundary condition for the auditory-visual contextual cuing effect. These results suggest that visual attention can be guided implicitly by crossmodal association, and they extend the idea that the visual system is sensitive to all kinds of statistical consistency.

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Probing attentional modulation of contextual cueing

Cited by 34 publications

References 15 publications

Contextual remapping in visual search after predictable target-location changes

Contextual remapping in visual search after predictable target-location changes

Misleading contextual cues: How do they affect visual search?

Auditory-visual contextual cuing effect

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