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When being narrow minded is a good thing : locally biased people show stronger contextual cueing
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Bellaera, Lauren, von Mühlenen, Adrian and Watson, Derrick G. (2014) When being narrow minded is a good thing : locally biased people show stronger contextual cueing. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, Volume 67 (Number 6). pp. 1242-1248. doi:10.1080/17470218.2013.858171 ISSN 1747-0218.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2013.858171
Abstract
Repeated contexts allow us to find relevant information more easily. Learning such contexts has been proposed to depend upon either global processing of the repeated contexts, or alternatively processing of the local region surrounding the target information. In this study, we measured the extent to which observers were by default biased to process towards a more global or local level. The findings showed that the ability to use context to help guide their search was strongly related to an observer's local/global processing bias. Locally biased people could use context to help improve their search better than globally biased people. The results suggest that the extent to which context can be used depends crucially on the observer's attentional bias and thus also to factors and influences that can change this bias.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology | ||||||||||
Publisher: | Psychology Press | ||||||||||
ISSN: | 1747-0218 | ||||||||||
Official Date: | 2014 | ||||||||||
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Volume: | Volume 67 | ||||||||||
Number: | Number 6 | ||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 1242-1248 | ||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/17470218.2013.858171 | ||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||||
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