The contribution of spatial position and rotated global configuration to contextual cueing
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The contribution of spatial position and rotated global configuration to contextual cueing Lei Zheng 1 & Stefan Pollmann 1,2,3
# The Psychonomic Society, Inc. 2019
Abstract Spatial information can incidentally guide attention to the likely location of a target. This contextual cueing was even observed if only the relative configuration, but not the individual locations of distractor items were repeated or vice versa (Jiang & Wagner in Perception & Psychophysics, 66(3), 454-463, 2004). The present study investigated the contribution of global configuration and individual spatial location to contextual cueing. Participants repeatedly searched 12 visual search displays in a learning session. In a subsequent transfer session, there were four conditions: fully repeated configurations (same as the displays in the learning session), recombined configurations from two learned configurations with the same target location (preserving distractor locations but not configuration), rotated configurations (preserving configuration but not distractor locations), and new configurations. We could show that contextual cueing occurred if only distractor locations or relative configuration, randomly intermixed, was preserved in a single experiment. Beyond replicating the results of Jiang and Wagner, we made an adjustment to a particular type of transformation – that may have occurred in separate experiments – unlikely. Moreover, contextual cueing in rotated configurations showed that repeated configurations can serve as context cues even without preserved azimuth. Keywords Contextual cueing . Visual search . Spatial position . Global configuration
Introduction What regularities can be used as contextual cues to guide visual search in repeated displays? Chun and Jiang (1998) developed a well-defined paradigm to investigate this question. Participants were asked to search for the target T among some L-shaped distractors. There were two types of search displays: old and new displays. For the old displays, the layout of distractors presented in the first block was preserved across repetitions. For the new displays, the positions of distractors varied randomly across blocks. However, contextual cueing
* Lei Zheng [email protected] 1
Department of Experimental Psychology, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany
2
Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences, Otto-von-Guericke-University, Magdeburg, Germany
3
Beijing Key Laboratory of Learning and Cognition and School of Psychology, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
was observed even if only some aspects of the displays were repeated. Either repetition of global configuration or individual distractor locations alone sufficed to facilitate search speed (Jiang & Wagner, 2004). In their Experiment 1, Jiang and Wagner (2004) constructed search displays that consisted of half the distractor locations of one previously searched repeated display and half of the distractor locations of another searched repeated display that both shared the same target location. In thi
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