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Kunar, Melina A. and Wolfe, Jeremy M. (2011) Target absent trials in configural contextual cuing. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, Vol.73 (No.7). pp. 2077-2091. doi:10.3758/s13414-011-0164-0 ISSN 1943-3921.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-011-0164-0
Abstract
In contextual cueing (CC), reaction times to find targets in repeated displays are faster than in displays that have never been seen before. This has been demonstrated using target-distractor configurations, global background colors, naturalistic scenes and the co-variation of target with distractors. The majority of CC studies have used displays where the target is always present. This paper investigates what happens when the target is sometimes absent. Experiment 1 shows that, although configural CC occurs in displays when the target is always present, there is no CC when the target is always absent. Experiment 2 shows that there is no CC when the same spatial layout can be both target present and target absent on different trials. The presence of distractors in locations that contain targets on other trials appears to interfere with CC and even disrupts the expression of previously learned contexts (Experiments 3-5). The results show that it is the target-distractor associations that are important in producing CC and, consistent with a response selection account, changing the response type from an orientation task to a detection task removes the CC effect.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology | ||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Searching behavior, Visual perception, Reaction time | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics | ||||
Publisher: | Springer | ||||
ISSN: | 1943-3921 | ||||
Official Date: | 21 June 2011 | ||||
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Volume: | Vol.73 | ||||
Number: | No.7 | ||||
Page Range: | pp. 2077-2091 | ||||
DOI: | 10.3758/s13414-011-0164-0 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 18 December 2015 | ||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 18 December 2015 | ||||
Funder: | National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (NIH) | ||||
Grant number: | MH56020 (NIH) |
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